The Agile Manifesto
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
Designers as Psychologists
I love this presentation by Joshua Porter called Designing with Psychology in Mind.
It is very clever and well put together.
I love the idea that designers are in the business of changing behaviour as are psychologists so we as designers may need to add another skill to our arsenal, that of psychologist.
Also the need to consider human psychology and “human-ness” is so integral to the design process.
This presentation references leading psychology thought and authors in the UX field. Joshua refers to Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – an excellent book.
He suggests that using his recommendations for creating flow as guides to help design user experience….and acknowledges the need to balance challenge with skill (existing)…
This is a bit similar to the notion of balancing familiarity and innovation (I will blog about this another time)