Personas are fictional characters created to represent the different user types within a targeted demographic that might use a site or product. Personas are useful in considering the goals, desires, and limitations of the users in order to help to guide decisions about a product, such as features, interactions, and visual design. Personas are most often used as part of a user-centered design process for designing software and are also considered a part of interaction design.
Tags: Alan Cooper, communication, HCI, Human-computer interaction, Interaction design, IxD, Labelling, Lene Nielsen, Persona, personas, Process, Scenario, situation, UCD, Usability, User-centered design
Software development is an often complex affair, beset by a multitude of difficulties ranging from talentless developers, feature bloat, stakeholder politics and poor planning.
Tags: agile, Alex Gorbatchev, Business, consensus, Culture, Design, developers, Development, feature bloat, functionality, iterative, model, Other Way Software, planning, politics, Process, Project Management, scrum, software developers, software engineering, software engineering failures, stakeholder, talent, talentless, waterfall, Zen Masters
A while ago a colleague of mine asked me the question “Do you consider your self to be a leader or a manager?”. Initially I responded that I thought myself to be a manager as an important aspect of my role is managing expectations, ideas and developments of an internal CRM system. However, a debate ensued as my colleague believed me to be more a leader than a manager and now I am not so sure which one I am!
Tags: Business, CRM system, Culture, definitions, discussion, effective, future, good manager, Industry, leader, leader and a manager, leader and manager, leaders, leadership, LinkedIn, management, manager, manager and a leader, Manager noun, managers, organisation, Politics & Money, Process, Strategy, truth, vision, web development consultant
The Fusedoc is a standardized way of documenting our code so that all members of the web team can more quickly and efficiently create and maintain ColdFusion templates.
Tags: Code, ColdFusion, Design, Fusebox, Fusedocs, Process, web team