Five Sketches™

This week I’m attending the annual CanUX (Canadian User Experience) conference in Banff Alberta.

This year’s focus is on practical how-to methods for designing better user experiences on a budget. Speakers include Rahel Bailie of Intentional Design, one of two speakers who will discuss content-management strategy. Also on the speaker list: Kristina Halvorson of Brain Traffic, […]

The Agile Manifesto includes twelve principles. These two are related:
Deliver working software frequently [in short sprints that last] from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
From discussions with other practitioners, I know that software teams can get dogmatic about the above […]

I recently moved into a home where the light switches are all wrong. I was able to fix one problem, and the rest is a daily reminder that usability doesn’t just happen by itself.
In one pair of light switches, the left switch controlled a lamp to the right, and the right switch controlled a lamp to […]