Category Archives: User Experience

The Google 20% Time in Perspective

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Skip Walter

As an executive consultant, I am always looking for ways to crank up the innovation capability of an organization.  I admired Google for their approach of encouraging their engineering talent to take on innovation projects through their “20% time.” As … Continue reading →

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Meyers Briggs and Project Team Formation

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Skip Walter

While I am not a professional teacher, I find that in business and consulting I am teaching all the time.  Several years ago thanks to the trusting invitation of Professor Jan Spyridakis, I found myself teaching graduate school at the … Continue reading →

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Where the Rubber Meets the Sky

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Skip Walter

“Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley As Aldus merged into Adobe in the early 1993, I put together a “gift” collection for those colleagues I’d grown … Continue reading →

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User Experience Research

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Skip Walter

One of the challenges for professionals who decide they want to change jobs is to demonstrate that they have competence in the new discipline through the capabilities they developed in their previous discipline. A year ago, my daughter decided that she … Continue reading →

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