By Ammy Phuwanartnurak

Many organizations are moving from traditional software development practices (aka the waterfall model) to agile development practices, and so has our organization. We adopted the scrum…

During one of our recent UX consultations — as is often the case — we hosted members of a UW department who needed some help navigating the early stages of a full-site redesign. The current site, everyone agreed was confusing and not helpful in allowing users to quickly find…

By Jason Civjan

Part II discussed some of our major realizations around how to best align Agile development and great UX. One of the key takeaways was that iterations should increase the…

By Charlon Palacay

Within the past year, our organization has gone through some major technology changes. Although the changes have been productive for our developers, they often result in some amount of challenges for designers, as we need to…

By Jason Civjan

The last post discussed the problems that, after years of being an Agile shop, we just couldn’t shake. A few of us took 2 weeks to see if we could find some…

By Jason Civjan

By Jared Comis

By the numbers Android and iOS are the two leading mobile platforms, together accounting for nearly 98% of mobile traffic on UW web services. With the successful launch of SpaceScout for iOS we felt it was time to start…

By Diego Bejarano

Not too long ago I started using an online diagramming app called Lucidchart, which allows real-time collaboration in the creation of workflows, wireframes, mind maps, organizational charts, UML diagrams, and site mockups. I’m here to report that so…