My advice if you’re thinking of practicing lean—don’t focus on the dogma of zero documentation, focus on the results of that rapid learning about how customers really see, engage with, and adopt your ideas.

— Brandon Schauer in Data Trumps Opinion: 4 Smart Services that Deploy and Learn

It’s critical for the user experience designer to be present and active in the prioritization of every iteration in an Agile environment.

— UIE Brain Sparks - Jeff Gothelf – Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business A Virtual Seminar Follow-up

[Something] that may be sort of shocking to a user experience designer is actually that Agile in its original methods are actually not user-centered. They’re client-centered.

— UIE Brain Sparks - Anders Ramsay – Applying Agile Values to UX

Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Eric Ries, Author - Evangelizing for the Lean Startup →

Lots of nuggets in this one!

For most designers, this responsibility is hidden by the celebratory claims of designing experiences. This claim almost abdicates the long-term responsibility, as “an experience” has an end, at which time the designers’ role seemingly ends. The work is meaningful only on an immediate level of craft and creation, and while designers often take pride in a product once it has launched, they do not frequently make the connection between their creations and the culture that surrounds them.

— Re-Thinking Interaction Design | design mind

Nordstrom Innovation Lab building an app in a week using a very user-driven process →

(via Tösabiten)

It such a weird question to me, ‘How do you have a creative company?’ Because companies are legal entities. They’re not creative. They’re just pieces of paper. It’s these people! You’re totally missing the point! People wanna be creative.

— Ben Chestnut

You can lose money and make it back. You can’t do that with time.

— Tim Ferriss

Delight is design’s superpower

— Frank Chimero | The Shape of Design

brianlucid:

Modern Pictograms is a typeface made for interface designers and programmers. Designed to work on-screen at sizes down to 18 pixels. Install the OpenType file for Photoshop mockups and drop in the @font-face code into your CSS to use right in your Web page. We’re offering it free, but donations accepted. 

The font is licensed with Open Font License. In short, you can’t resell it as is, but you can incorporate it into your work and make a profit on that.

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