Articles on Process
Make the things you do often fast and easy
Many of our projects are ‘greenfield’ and we have the opportunity to do things the way we like. By working on new projects every few months, as opposed to one project over the course of years, we have lots of opportunity to easily tweak and tune the way we do things. Not all of our …
Rewrite or Rescue
Java has been the tool of choice for enterprise application development for many organizations for over 10 years. We are seeing more and more applications that are aging and suffering for it. We have worked with several recent clients to breathe new life in to these legacy applications so they can evolve and grow with …
Alan Cooper presented by IxDA at Hot Studio
Alan Cooper spoke last night around the corner at Hot Studio at an event organized by the San Francisco chapter of IxDA, the Interaction Design Association. His talk was titled “An Insurgence of Quality” and was similar to the talk he gave at an IxDA event in Savannah in February. Cooper talked for a while …
Agile User Experience (UX) Resources
For the seven years that we have been evolving our Extreme Programming practice, we have repeatedly readdressed the question of how to best integrate user experience design (visual design, information architecture,…) with an agile process. As a consulting company, it has always been a requirement that we flex our process to accommodate our clients and …