by Charles Lambdin At the opening talk of UX Strat15, Paul Bryan (conference chair) asked attendees to please “question agile.” Often, he said, when project risk is high, rigor should be considered more important than agility. When teams place efficiency on too high a pedestal they can start acting like…
Brown-bag lunch at Conway
The UX team at Conway (a leader in transportation and logistics) graciously invited Leo to informally discuss Presumptive Design over lunch. The team had read the postings on UXMatters (The full chapter 1 of the book and A quick overview of the notions behind the book) and were curious to learn more. In preparation…
Presumptive Design: Design Research Through the Looking Glass
By Leo and Charles for UX Matters, August 24, 2015 You’re on a project team. The team has just formed, so you haven’t done any user research, but various internal stakeholders already strongly feel they know what the solution should be. They’re wrong, of course, but how can you dissuade…
UXStrat 15 Workshop – Spectacular success
As part of the UXStrat 15 conference, Charles and I co-facilitated a half-day workshop for Presumptive Design. We had three objectives: Introduce Presumptive Design as a rapid method of strategy validation Allow workshop attendees to apply the process Explore how to validate strategies before executing on them to reduce risk…