Alan Cooper Talks About Understanding Personas
Interaction design luminary Alan Cooper discusses the importance of using personas in designing interfaces that will help your users to achieve their goals.
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Art of saying NO
Feature gluttony is a common sin among software development projects. Customers deliver never ending wish list of features they want. However, the key is not to build everything, but only things that are really needed. Learn how to defeat feature gluttony by… saying NO!
Conversation Patterns for Software Developers
We have created lots of tools which are intended to structure fuzzy or unclear business needs. We have created use cases, user stories, acceptance test and so forth. Although the tools above were designed to improve collaboration with customers , we use them to hide ourselves from business people. Instead …
Stop Throwing Money Out The Window Lean Startup
This talk is about the lean startup movement and how its ideas can be applied in order to incrementally build a product based on validated learning. We will discuss how adding features without first identifying our assumptions leads to waste. We’ll then see how experiments in the form of minimum …
Worse Is Better in Software Development
Over two decades ago, Richard P Gabriel proposed the thesis of “Worse Is Better” to explain why some things that are designed to be pure and perfect are eclipsed by solutions that are seemingly limited and incomplete. This can also be true in software development.
Violet UML Editor
Violet UML Editor is a free open source cross-platform software. It can create Unified Modeling Language diagrams: use case diagram, class diagrams, object diagram, state diagram, state,activity and sequence diagram.