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Information Architecture, Project Management, User Experience Design
Integrated Solutions: Part 3 – Project Engagements, Process, Best Practices and Implementation July 8th, 2010
NavigationArts has extensive experience in Web-enabled solutions. Our engagements span from strategic consulting services to design, development and implementation. Generally, for the purposes of best practice and process discussion, I group some of our offerings into four major categories:
- Web Strategy
- Strategy to Presentation Layer Design (Information Architecture and Visual Design)
- Strategy to Technology Implementation
- End to End Integrated Web-Enabled Solutions
Regardless of the scope of engagement, User Experience should be at the foundation of every project. User Experience Design (UXD) is based on Architecture, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Technology and Content Strategy. Because this work inherently is conducted across several disciplines and often incorporates members from multiple teams (such as the NavigationArts’ team in conjunction with client teams), it is imperative to have repeatable, traceable, and auditable processes as well as best practices in place. Incorporating best practices into these disciplines ensures that you can reconcile business goals, platform constraints and user needs in order to create a UXD that is valuable, credible, scalable and maintainable.
Dan Pink on the Science of Motivation October 8th, 2009
Once the task called for “even rudimentary cognitive skill,” a larger reward “led to poorer performance.”
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.
Application Development, Project Management, Web Development
Waterfall vs. Agile vs. The Real World September 11th, 2009
In a nutshell, the “Waterfall model” to software development consists of taking a project from design to implementation in one single pass; the “Agile model” consists of very short iterative cycles.
Randall Davis
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