Spoolcast on Beyond Deliverables / Prototyping

These days, there isn’t a more accomplished user experience consultancy than User Interface Engineer. It’s lead, Jared Spool, does a great podcast series called the Spoolcast.
A recent podcast with James Box and Richard Rutter visits some of the notions I expressed in the post “UX Design Artifacts: Conversation Anchors not Deliverables“. The interviewee’s [...]

The Generalizing (User Experience) Specialist

Agile brings a focus on the team as a unit and a lack of willingness to block, or plan for dependencies, around specialists. The term “generalizing specialists” describes the goal for agile team members to become less diversified in the key skills of producing quality software.
A recent heated thread on the Agile-Usability discussion list [...]