by Leo Frishberg. The challenge for most of us, most of the time, is to create outcomes that matter to the people that matter in our lives. Whether that is a professional focus, such as creating “the next big thing,” or a personal endeavor, such as making a holiday event…
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Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for Innovation
By Leo and Charles for UX Matters, Sept 21, 2015 This is a sample chapter from the book. Chapter 1: Introducing Presumptive Design “The future does not just happen. Except for natural events like earthquakes, it comes about through the efforts of people.”—Jacque Fresco Overview PrD is a design research…
Presumptive Design Completes Agile
by Charles Lambdin. In our previous post about Presumptive Design’s relationship to agile, we positioned Presumptive Design as a fast and efficient way to incorporate UX strategy work into an agile process. Let’s say some more about this. Agile, which focuses on executing, assumes you already know what you’re building. But…
Presumptive Design Allows for Agility and Rigor
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…
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…