As a UX Manager, adding a new person to your team is one of the most difficult and critical things [...]
Should you hire a UX specialist or a UX generalist?
Jared Spool
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Jared spends his days researching how teams create great designs as part of the team at User Interface Engineering. You can hear his latest research on how teams create their design principles at the upcoming UIE Web App Masters Tour across the US this spring. He is also behind the recently published masterpiece, Web Anatomy, even though his co-author, Robert Hoekman, Jr., deserves all the credit for the good bits. Make sure you follow him on the Twitters—he's pretty funny.
Should You Be Hands or Brains?
This is part 2 of a two-part post. Read part 1. In the last installment, we talked about the distinction [...]
The Hands vs. the Brains
What’s the difference between contracting and consulting? One major difference comes down to whether the job is handwork or brainwork.[...]
Low-Hanging Fruit and Penny Stocks
Some days, I like to think I have a UX Flashlight. As I point its beam at a design, all [...]
What Happens When You’re Gone?
In last month’s Johnny Holland column, I made the radical recommendation that UX professionals stop making recommendations to their[...]
My Recommendation: Stop Making Design Recommendations
It’s easy to believe them when clients ask us, designers, to make recommendations. We want to believe they love us [...]