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The Scientific Method is Bullshit, and Y’all Suck

TLDR: Not really. And No, you’re not. (You are all fine people.) It’s become fashionable to bash Design Thinking, maybe more so last year but it takes me a while to get around to articles like this one. Actually I

pkdaly@yahoo.com April 1, 2019July 8, 2021 Definitions, History, Industry No Comments Read more

What’s So Wrong with Waterfall?

I’ve had experience with a bunch of different development methodologies in my career, starting with military acquisition–the problems of which (e.g. the $600 hammer stories) led to many changes in project management (e.g. PMBOK), lean processes, the agile manifesto etc. 

pkdaly@yahoo.com March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 Definitions, History, methods No Comments Read more

Nielsen on 100 Years of UX

Good to see a story acknowledging the history of UX, even before there were websites. Though this is from Jakob Nielsen, one of the veterans. I do remember the years when you could recognize everyone at the UX and HF

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History of UX, Part 3

Been away, haven’t had time to post. Today I came across Deborah Mayhew’s piece on ‘UXers – Who Are We Anyway?’, arguing against the UX Unicorn. But her background reminded me to complete the History of UX  — with respect

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History of UX, Part 2

UX is a “big tent” field; people get into it from a variety of backgrounds–but mostly three: psychology, computer science, and design. My first post on History of UX, I showed how UX goes back to Applied Psychology and the application

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What can UX learn from Applied Psychology?

Last post, I proposed that UX is just specialized Applied Psychology.  If that’s so, what can modern UX learn from Applied Psychology? Stepping back, what is Applied Psychology? A smart-ass answer would be: it is the application of psychology… then

pkdaly@yahoo.com January 19, 2015January 20, 2015 History No Comments Read more

History of UX, Part 1

Here I start to discuss one of the issues that got me writing on UX in the first place. Having been in the field quite a while, I get peeved reading about how UX is a new (or relatively new) field.

pkdaly@yahoo.com January 16, 2015July 13, 2020 Definitions, History No Comments Read more

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