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Job Fractals

Job Fractals

Product design at any extreme can be understood through a handful of jobs I’m calling Trades and their Crafts, a series of short posts —…
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Michael Schofield
Exnovation, the Iceberg Model, and Expertise is Over-valued

Exnovation, the Iceberg Model, and Expertise is Over-valued

I want to share a few totally unrelated pieces of thinking that caught my eye. This will be a shorty but I think you’ll find it…
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Michael Schofield
You don’t need UX in your title

You don’t need UX in your title

You and I are in the business of user experience — because the user experience is often the chief differentiator.
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Michael Schofield
The Value of Design in Hard Times

The Value of Design in Hard Times

One of the things you’re not doing now — or doing less of — is aggressively trying to understand how the service landscape has changed.
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The Big Ideas
How to talk about User Experience: Defining UX as a Metric

How to talk about User Experience: Defining UX as a Metric

The user experience is a measure of your end-user’s interaction with your organization: its brand, its product, and its services.
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The Service Reactor

The Service Reactor

A fundamentally user-centric vision to motivate an organization’s investment in ResearchOps
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Michael Schofield
How to talk about Service Design and User Experience Design in the Same Sentence

How to talk about Service Design and User Experience Design in the ...

Service design is the practice and the user experience is its metric.
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Best Practices
Links Should Open in the Same Window

Links Should Open in the Same Window

The best practice is to leave the default link behavior alone
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Create Shallow Personas

Create Shallow Personas

Design personas to help you move on to more interesting work.
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Michael Schofield
Modern WordPress Development: You should throw an exception when you encounter a WP_Error

Modern WordPress Development: You should throw an exception when yo...

WordPress methods like wp_insert_user don’t throw exceptions when they fail, but instead — and in some cases only if you tell the method to…
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