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Predictions for 2008
Here's a quick rundown of my take on key trends. Trends are different from fads since they're longer-lasting and more pervasive. I don't have a crystal ball or a magic 8-ball, but I have 20/20 hindsight with the customers I work with and an eye for patterns. Read More...
Posted 02 January 08 03:40 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Human Shepherds and the Law of Relevancy
Yesterday, Ed helped me word a "law" that I use for important decisions and that I see show up quite a bit in a number of places. It's the law of human relevancy. The Law of Relevancy No matter how relevant the information is, it's more relevant with Read More...
Posted 10 November 07 08:14 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Scenarios in Practice
Scenarios are a practical way to organize and focus your product design, development and release. (We use scenario-driven engineering in patterns & practices) Key Benefits Business value . You can use scenarios to evaluate business value. What pain Read More...
Posted 15 October 07 03:21 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Task-Analysis Grid for Communicating Product Design
How do you communicate design decisions? … Srinath sent me a helpful link on the Task-Analysis Grid . A Task Analysis Grid is effectively columns of scenarios along with sub-tasks to complete the task. Here's the key points: The columns are organized Read More...
Posted 09 February 07 08:16 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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What Are You Optimizing
This is such a fundamental question. It has an enormous impact on your product design and how you structure your product life cycle. For example, are you optimizing time? ... money? ... impact? ... innovation? ... resource utilization? If you don't answer Read More...
Posted 02 February 07 06:40 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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User Experience, Tech Feasibility and Business Value
I found a way to explore more and churn less on incubation (i.e. R&D) projects. It helps to think of your project experiments and key risks in terms of these three categories and in this order: 1. user experience 2. technical feasibility 3. business Read More...
Posted 06 December 06 12:44 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Be the Software
When you're working on an R&D project, how do you shorten the cycles around testing your user experience models? ... Be the Software That's the advise John Socha-Leialoha , father of Norton Commander , gave me and it worked like a champ. We faced Read More...
Posted 01 December 06 08:01 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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