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This is the first in a three-part series on how to build and grow successful user experience teams in agile environments. It covers challenges related to organization, hiring and integration that plague UX teams in these situations. The perspective is that of a team l...

GeekWire

It is a little ironic that Tony Wright’s latest startup project, TouchBase Calendar, was built in the shadow of the Costa Rica beaches. After all, that’s one place where you’d think the rat race of scheduling meetings and making appointments on time would be a super low priority.

But Costa Rica was the birthplace of Wright’s new iPhone app, known as TouchBase Calendar. Wright, who co-founded...

Coding Horror

When Joel Spolsky and I set out to design the Stack Exchange Q&A engine in 2008 -- then known as Stack Overflow -- we borrowed liberally and unapologetically from any online system that we felt worked. Some of our notable influences included:

• Reddit and Digg voting
• Xbox 360 achievements
• Wikipedia editing
• eBay karma
• Blogs and blog comments
• Classic web bulletin boards

All these elements were...

GeekWire

Jen Zug

A new startup specializing in explanatory animated videos is launching in Seattle this week — and for a group of people taking the entrepreneurial plunge, it would be hard to imagine a more appropriate first project than this video.

The startup, called What Now? Exactly! made this animation for the formal debut this week of the Startup Foundation, an initiative launched by Seattle-based S...

Bokardo

There is a lot to like in the presentation The Language of Interfaces by Des Traynor, in which he makes several important points about Interface Design.

The first is that words mean everything in the interface. Every single word you choose is important, from the call-to-action button to the headline to the words in an error message. Each word, if carefully chosen, adds to the experience of the ...