Category Archives: User Experience

Everything Old is New Again

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Skip Walter

I live for good questions which cause me to stand back and have to think and reflect. While attending Professor David Socha’s UW Bothell CSS 572 course on Evidence Based Design, during a break David asked me to compare and contrast … Continue reading →

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Sifteo Siftables – So Near, So Far

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Skip Walter

A couple of months ago, my user experience researcher daughter, Liz Shelly, sent me an email asking if I’d see the Sifteo Siftables.  She was walking to lunch in the Financial District of San Francisco and came across some Sifteo employees … Continue reading →

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Teams versus the Professor/Student Learning Relationship

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Skip Walter

Once again, I was reminded of the power of a committed group of good thinkers to generate insights with problems that have been bugging me for a while. Six of us got together yesterday to gain a preliminary understanding of … Continue reading →

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First, Second and Third Raters

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Skip Walter

Every startup expertise blog or book starts with telling you how important talent is in hiring and shaping the team that is going to drive the startup.  The authors assert that you should always hire “A players.”  How do you … Continue reading →

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Heuristics for Building Great Products – Gordon Bell

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Skip Walter

One of the great entrepreneurs of the 20th Century died in 2011 – Ken Olsen who founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).  For 23 years, Gordon Bell served as the Executive Vice President for Research and Development (both hardware and software) … Continue reading →

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The Other 90% of Software Product Development

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Skip Walter

So you’ve just finished your alpha software product and you are ready to release it to the world to get some feedback.  Congratulations.  Now you are ready for the next 90% of the software development effort – RAAMPUSS. In a … Continue reading →

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Competing Product Design Centers

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Skip Walter

Traditionally product planning is the realm of the software engineering team represented by a program manager or engineering manager and the marketing team represented by a product manager or product marketing manager.  Often, these activities became exercises in “list management” … Continue reading →

Posted in Content with Context, Human Centered Design, Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management, Learning, organizing, User Experience, Working in teams | 2 Comments

Cameron Crazie for a Night

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Skip Walter

I am an over the top obnoxious Duke Men’s Basketball fan.  I have to be as the rest of my siblings and my wife and her siblings are Carolina graduates (now there is an oxymoron). Ever since I entered the … Continue reading →

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Envisioning the Visual Analytics Future – circa 1986

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Skip Walter

The Fantastic Voyage – Computerworld, November 24, 1986 (John Kirkley) The following article appeared in Computerworld and described a talk I gave about a potential vision for a powerful visual analytics user interface.  I had not remembered this article until finding … Continue reading →

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Ode to Steve Jobs

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Skip Walter

On the way to somewhere else in preparing the last couple of blog posts, I came across a reflection document I prepared in 1990  “ALL-IN-1 Ten Years Later.”  Buried in the document was an article that caught my eye about … Continue reading →

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