Writings from papers, articles, and other readings. Mostly process journal entries.

José Lara

Nov 29, 2017

Fall 2017 — Week 10 Process Journal

Kellogg Business Case: Study Smart Tutors: A Case of Entrepreneurial Dilemmas and Opportunities to Break Through Unique Growth Barriers

José Lara

Nov 11, 2017

Fall 2017 — Week 08 Process Journal

Kellogg Business Case: Zeald: From Start-Up to Maturity

In this case study, the foundation and early stages of New Zealand web design and e-commerce company are presented along with some of the challenges…

José Lara

Nov 5, 2017

Fall 2017 — Week 07 Process Journal

Barlow and Møller: A Complaint Is A Gift

Barlow and Møller cover a somewhat controversial topic: Customer complaints in retail should be highly praised by organizations or companies that provide a product or service…

José Lara

Oct 28, 2017

Fall 2017 — Week 06 Process Journal

Davey and Parker: Requirements Elicitation Problems: A Literature Analysis

This paper highlights several key issues with identifying and gathering the right requirements for information…

José Lara

Oct 21, 2017

Fall 2017 — Week 05 Process Journal

Amabile: A Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

Developing organizations where creativity can flourish is challenging. Teresa Amabile highlights some common patterns based on her…

José Lara

Oct 18, 2017

Fall 2017 — Week 04 Process Journal

The few sentences you need to dominate your market

Takeaways:

If you advertise that you are the best at X, you better be able to prove it.

Kelly Graham

Oct 11, 2017

Week 3 Journal

This week’s readings seemed mostly focused on design process methodology. Gestwicki and McNely, as well as Moggridge, both describe the stages of design process in different but related forms. Having been in UX for a while, I feel that there are as many variants of the design process as there are…

Kelly Graham

Oct 11, 2017

Week 2 Journal

I was happy with the readings this week, as I felt they gave a great overview of the basic concepts behind entrepreneurship and how modern startups frequently operate (i.e. the lean startup model). The Steve Blank piece gave a great overview of lean startup and lean UX methodology and broke down how…

José Lara

Oct 11, 2017

Fall 2017 — Week 03 Process Journal

Gestwicki and McNely: A case study of a five-step design thinking process

In this paper, Gestwicki and McNely describe the process through which a group of university students developed a game…

José Lara

Oct 11, 2017

Fall 2017 — Week 02 Process Journal

Star, Kling. Human centered systems

One of the main takeaway points from this paper, is that Kling and Star raise an important issue in the definition of Human-centered: the architectural relationships — e.g. if the…