IA & UX - Louis Rosenfeld DinPattern – Free seamless patterns Using personas for executive alignment A few weeks ago my colleague Michelle Zassenhaus suggested we pitch the executive team on a persona research project. We discussed the need and merit of this project for a while without reaching a clear consensus. Where I was getting stuck was the need for this exercise given how much face time we actually have with our customers. We run usability testing every week. We call customers on an ad hoc basis but it amounts to nearly weekly conversations. The company has an annual focus group initiative and our customer service teams are always vocal with prevalent customer issues. I posed the question to several folks including Tristan Kromer. I decided to pitch the organization on a proto-persona (aka ad-hoc persona) exercise where the executive team would articulate who they believed we were building products for and how our current and future offerings would meet their needs in the near-term future. via Jeff Patton & Luke Barrett who re-created the cartoon from an unknown origin. [Jeff]
Le Rayon UX - Frédéric de Villamil Startup Giraffe Games for presenting Posted: August 26th, 2011 | Added by: glennhughes | Filed under: Core Games, Games for closing, Games for opening, Games for presenting, Games for update or review meetings, Gamestorming wiki, Various | Tags: communication activity, create-learning, facilitation, group work, metaphor, Opening, status updates | 1 comment » What if Status Meetings were like Sports News? Object of Play Sitting through status meetings is boring, right? Number of Players 4 to 40 Duration of Play 30 to 60 minutes for a weekly meeting; up to 4 hours for a quarterly or annual review How to Play Like TV, StatusCenter will link short game segments, in a manner that is interesting and time-efficient. Opening Games Question Balloons: Simulating the controlled question-asking mechanisms of status shows like Larry King’s ‘email questions’, this game lets attendees literally float a question. Exploring Games Closing Games Coming Attractions: What hot projects or decisions are coming up in the next week? Strategy How to Play
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