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This week in ux-clinic: Managing usability time

Posted on October 9, 2006 in Management, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’m a single usability engineer serving over 100 programmers across a dozen…

This week in ux-clinic: the usability police

Posted on October 2, 2006 in design, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’ve been asked by the boss to do a usability review of…

This week in ux-clinic: Designing for novices and experts

Posted on September 25, 2006 in design, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: We’re a start-up of veteran designers and software developers, building a cutting…

This week in ux-clinic: in-house vs. outsource UX

Posted on September 18, 2006 in UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: My UX group consists of 7 designers and a manager. In the…

This week in ux-clinic: harvesting the idea farm

Posted on August 28, 2006 in design, Innovation, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: We’re early on a project and doing lots of prototypes and crazy…

This week in ux-clinic: Can UI be funny?

Posted on August 21, 2006 in design, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: We’re supposed to be designing a short tutorial for an on-line banking…

This week in ux-clinic: How to cut a bad, shipped feature

Posted on August 14, 2006 in design, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’m on young team that has finally admitted to itself that a…

This week in ux-clinic: Beyond don’t make me think

Posted on August 7, 2006 in design, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: Recently, I switched from working on consumer websites, to the more staid,…

This week in ux-clinic: Superhero UX vs. conservatives

Posted on July 31, 2006 in UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: We’re a pair of UX folks (a designer and a usability engineer).…

This week in ux-clinic: The requirements to design gap

Posted on July 24, 2006 in design, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I work for a large medical software company that attempts to follow…

This week in ux-clinic: Getting the new up to speed

Posted on July 17, 2006 in UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: Right now, our company is growing by leaps and bounds and an…

This week in ux-clinic: vision and collaboration

Posted on July 10, 2006 in UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: While managing a small design team how does one manage both a…

This week in ux-clinic: Drive by critiques

Posted on June 27, 2006 in design, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: One of the bad habits in my company is the drive-by critique:…

This week in ux-clinic: Does help matter?

Posted on June 19, 2006 in UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum: I’m an information designer and developer, aka technical writer. I’ve recently been…

This week in ux-clinic: Keep ’em seperated?

Posted on June 12, 2006 in UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum: I’m a lead designer (manage team of 5 usability and design folks)…

This week in ux-clinic: The horror of the small screen

Posted on May 1, 2006 in design, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum – the horror of the small screen: “WooHoo! We just shipped a…

This week in ux-clinic: Leading the design skunkworks

Posted on April 24, 2006 in UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum – Leading the design skunkworks: My UX team is convinced that to…

This week in ux-clinic: Blog-‘O-rama

Posted on April 17, 2006 in UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum – Blog-‘O-Rama: We’re a tragically hip start-up and recently we’ve gone blog-mad.…

This week in uxclinic: Death by comparison

Posted on April 10, 2006 in UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum – Death by comparison: I’m a usability engineer on a major web…

This week in ux-clinic: Being the UX hero

Posted on April 3, 2006 in design, UX-Clinicby Scott Berkun

This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum– Being the UX hero: Our group is in the process of launching…

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