User experience is a matter of pace not speed. — Timing is of paramount importance when you design user experience, I’m not only speaking about digital products. Any service sets user expectations about time, missing these expectations will create frictions and unhappy users. Let’s have a look at some examples of how timing is at the basis of successful user…

What is Conway’s law In 1968 computer scientist Melvin Conway wrote a paper with the following thesis: Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure. This statement was defined Conway’s Law in the 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. …

Expert interview with Arian Celina Tech Lead at Springer Nature. I‘m conducting a series of user interviews with one of Talent Rider main segments: tech managers looking for talented developers. Follows my interview with Arian Celina. …

Expert interview with Jonathan Morrice, CTO of Perdoo. I‘m conducting a series of interviews with one of Talent Rider main segments: tech leaders committed in talent acquisition. The 1st person I contacted for is Jonathan Morrice, CTO of Perdoo. Founded in 2014 in Berlin by Jonathan and Henrik-Jan van der…

Opera > innovation I’m a big fun of Opera Software since long time, I installed Opera Browser for the first time 20 years ago on Windows 98. It was the only browser at that time to have tabs, then they introduced speed dial with most visited sites. …

Thanks to broadband Internet and the many web tools out there, many jobs can now be performed remotely. There are even companies such as GitLab, Buffer, InVision that are 100% distributed. Here are my advices to make remote team work enjoyable. 1 Shared Docs Google Docs has totally replaced Office Suite in my…

in search of the best way for representing customer goals. Few weeks ago I was looking for an effective way for performing user research to design new features in existing product. I decided to have a look at the Jobs-to-be-Done methodpromoted by Intercom on their free book on the theme…

Why voice assistants are like Mad men secretaries?

Any technology magazine and major newspaper has at least 1 piece every week about Artificial Intelligence and how it will revolutionize, for better or worse, our future. A lot of articles have a philosophical viewpoint about the role of humans in world future. I’m intrigued and excited by these conversations…