→ From Evan’s article Ten Rules for Web Startups (2005).
→ Found via InspireUX.com
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“User experience is everything” – Evan Williams, Twitter CEO
January 20th, 2010 by Harry Brignull • 4 comments4 comments so far | Leave a comment
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I'm Harry Brignull, User Experience Designer at Clearleft in Brighton. My work involves a mix of User Research and Interaction Design. In the past few years I've consulted for The Guardian, Haymarket, Madgex, British Airways, Vodafone, O2 and many others.
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Harry,
Thanks for bringing Evan Williams’ bold statement to my attention. There’s a movement afoot in the Agile community to bring UX into our projects. I recently attended CodeFreeze 2010 where Alan Cooper, Jeff Patton, Ward Cunningham, and David Hussman (all in my @BobMacNeal/software-luminaries group on Twitter) talked about the lack of UX focus on Agile projects. The consensus was the Agilists are good at delivery, but we stink at discovery — the process of figuring out our users like, want, need, etc.
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So true so true. Frustrating for those of us in medicine to see that Health Care IT doesn’t get this at all. Stop making stuff to communicate with insurance companies that facilitates billing and start making stuff that the user will love.