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UX satisfaction testing’s annual project cost of $1,200 can save development teams 10 times or much more if used properly. It is the speed and accessibility that is most important. Cheap/hacker results are better (even preferred) to what teams are presently being dished up –slow to no results. Meaningless philosophical drivel arrives too late to…

There are two speed metrics: 1) based on actual pageweight — you have offloaded some weight (sharing with Picassa); and 2) perceived load time (page rendering or recognition). As long as you are “perceived” as under 2 seconds you are fine. Google owns Picassa. They are using good technology to speed up the image “delivery”.…

Can development teams do rapid user satisfaction testing themselves?This would be called a focus group or simply emailing survey questions. You know how good those are and how long they take to assemble. They tell you what you want to hear. Teams sometimes try to do testing themselves by using in-house staff (hardly unbiased) but…

http://uxmovement.com/thinking/myers-briggs-personality-types-of-designers/ I am INFP (dominant) or INFJ (subordinate). I can role play ENFP (teacher) with high taxation on my energy levels. I’m well suited for the UX work. I’ve been immersing in UX and in particular “Rapid User Satisfaction Feedback” which is essential for “agile” web development (team projects). Agile project management improves web project…

I have yet to see a satisfaction survey site that made me want to get out my wallet or give it a try. They are usually charging by the month or by the test or by the project. And the offer is just extremely boring. None of them make me go “cool! gimmee!” Most have…

Agile is good but too tightly focused.“Team development” is really the positioning. Agile is a team project management method but most teams fail at Agile or just pay it lip service. It is an ideal. It is hot but in the real world only a small portion are disciplined and motivated enough to make it…

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