Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Benjamin Ho

Benjamin Ho — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:20:57 GMT

I’ll start – For everyone out there who want to go to the next level, either to begin your career or to grow in your current position, what questions do you have? Any problematic scenarios? Need another person’s perspective for growth?

Benjamin Ho — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:05:22 GMT

This would be quite interesting. I’ve always had the idea that design can be about output that’s not really tangible.

Benjamin Ho — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:14:59 GMT

Hmm..this sounds like quite the challenge. The basis for CYOA stories is that you’ve already anticipated what the user has in terms of certain points where they need to make a decision. How do you determine where they make decisions? And then the story itself – do they all branch off into their own nodes or do they come together?
..some things to think about.

Benjamin Ho — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:59:25 GMT

Maureen,

Are you looking to write this article or looking for someone to write it with you?

Ben

Benjamin Ho — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:45:54 GMT

Great article, Anthony! Looking forward to part two!

We’re in the process of adding people to our 1-person team – isn’t that normally the case? =]
Another resource we’ve touched on is Eric Schaffer’s book on institutionalizing Usability. (HFI)
At one point in time, I asked Jakob Neilsen the important question of one person doing programming and usability. He replied back saying:
”...certainly a half-time focus on the [UCD] discipline is not good for career growth..”

Learning from other resources, for instance, the book “Good to Great” and Dan Sullivan’s “Unique Ability”, more success is had when a person/entity concentrates on doing one thing, and one thing really well. This doesn’t mean to get a “specialist” per se, but more someone who can do it all and chooses to concentrate to do something they love to while having understanding of the other facets of UX development.

Benjamin Ho — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:23:31 GMT

Great article! This compliments Jared Spool’s article on how Personas are like vacations – you can’t really write about them, you have to experience them. So essentially, the process of “Modeling” after particular key users is extremely beneficial in understanding the product’s users.