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Paul Daly

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Designers Will Be Out Of A Job!!!

TL/DR; No. So this strident post shows up in my LinkedIn feed, and I started my wise ass response.. but then paused and thought two thoughts: 1) don’t be a jerk, and 2) I should try it out before I

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Agile is Broken, But UX Saves it Anyway

Agile is Broken, But UX Saves it Anyway

Let me pause my daily Jira/Agile/Scrum busywork to say a few things about Agile. As it works today, Agile Scrum usually causes more problems than it solves. Sure, the common response (like the ‘Design Thinking Sucks‘ thread) is “you are

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Great Resignation, Personal Edition

Empty office

TLDR: Businesses need to rethink how they deal with exiting employees; remember that ‘at will’ works both ways. So I joined the crowd this September and left my job. I’m now a consultant with Publicis Sapient. There are a bunch

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Design Skills for Teams

A while back I posted on UX Core Competencies, visualized through a radar chart, to show potential gaps individually and within a team for upskilling opportunity through practice or training. So that’s old news, what have you done for me

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Wicked Problems – Pandemic Edition: Education

If there is one thing we can learn from the pandemic it is that Everything Is Broken.. Public health, health care, education, supply chains, work, justice, democracy, economic inequality…our electric grid. Pandemic didn’t cause these but the crisis exposed problems

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A UX Hiring Manager Perspective

A year into pandemic work-from-home, UX Designers can be counted lucky that we have a job that affords that. Though we will be more productive and creative when we can do in-person design sprints, contextual inquiries, interviews and usability tests,

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Precedented!!

Sorry, this is only tangentially related to Design, but allow me to digress. I’ll bring it around. If Pandemic Lockdown wasn’t enough, now, in Texas, we have Ice Storm Lockdown with bonus rolling blackouts. If your pandemic hoard is gone,

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Future of Remote Design Work

Q2 Zoom with Black Fret

Early on in the pandemic lockdown there was a general business panic on how we’re going to move workers remote, especially the tech infrastructure-heavy tasks of call centers and IT hosting. When it turned out to be doable, there was

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Music for Shut-ins

Music for Shut-ins

For about 20 years I was a Freeform American Roots DJ on a college/community radio station in San Antonio. The show was Third Coast Music Network, which started as “Joe X By God Horn’s World Famous Texas Music Show” Sunday nights

pkdaly@yahoo.com August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 Uncategorized 1 Comment Read more

Management by Zooming Around

Q2 Zoom with Black Fret

MBWA is no more. How do you manage a remote team? So we’ve had our first full quarter of COVID remote work; enough for the ‘hey let’s do remote work all the time’ chatter to die down, as isolation, loneliness,

pkdaly@yahoo.com July 6, 2020July 13, 2020 Industry, methods No Comments Read more
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