At UXReactor we know Pragmatic means consistent, replicable, measurable, and scalable. And we have created a framework to bring these outcomes to running all of our design reviews. You can start to do so with your design reviews by utilizing these four important but understandable components:
Understanding PragmaticUX
The state of User Experience is now in a significant state of transition. As a profession it’s moving from more of a craft to becoming a discipline. This has resulted in angst across organizations as they try to implement a more experience focused strategy.
Business and design leaders are trying to best operationalize it, but how do you a build a system that translates itself across time to consistently deliver value? …
One of my favorite strategies for quickly generating ideas for user interfaces (UI) is using Quick 6's — visual artifacts showing how to solve a problem in 6 different ways.
Here’s how you create them:
1. Identify a single UI problem to solve. Write it on top of a sheet of paper.
2. Divide that piece of paper into 6 boxes. See below for an example.
3. Set a timer to 5–15 minutes (this will help you rapidly brainstorm and is surprisingly effective).
4. Sketch! Fill each box with different ways to solve the UI problem you identified earlier until…
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