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Five Sketches Consulting

User experience, usability analysis, and interface design … with development teams

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Posted on 15 June, 200915 June, 2009

Being nice about work

niceCatherine Powell specialises in QA, to ensure software works well, but also thinks about what makes the workplace work well: being nice. Have a look at Catherine’s blog about her professional attitude of choice.

Five Sketches™ process

  • Use the Five Sketches™ process to get quality software designs
  • Why five sketches? Why not three?
  • Set the problem statement just right
  • Sketching to communicate effectively
  • Competing ideas at the finish line? How to pick a winner

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