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FiveSketches

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Usability research, information architecture, and customer-experience design, often on large products and with teams of software developers.

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@JenMsft @lindhartsen

OH. I thought it's to write someone's name on the blank! I was thinking how UNUSABLE that card would be to write on, with the black background. 🤦🏼‍♂️

FiveSketches, to UX
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An AI function I would use:
During video calls, generate video of my face that always looks at the camera – not slightly down at my laptop keyboard, or sideways at the cat – in the interest of better interpersonal communication through eye contact.

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OH HEY

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10491133

FiveSketches, (edited )
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Developer Thriving framework

ABSTRACT: Software research has documented a connection between how satisfied feel at work and their overall . These explorations have not typically identified the most promising levers for leaders and teams that wish to impact it. This study presents a -based for measuring successful environments for long-term and sustainable sociocognitive problem-solving, named Thriving.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10491133

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FiveSketches,
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@grimalkina Are you one of the co-authors, or do you know the authors?

I shortened the abstract to fit the character limit. Sorry! 😅

But it IS getting traction.

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@grimalkina Maybe I'm using "traction" incorrectly, but my reply to your "Oh, hey" post is getting boosted and liked more than the vast majority of things I post. And all without any hashtags.

I don't know how to uncover boosts and likes after I first view them.

I hope I come across your promised thread about this research when you post it.

FiveSketches, to UX
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Agile was intended to address the problem of waterfall software development: delivering the wrong thing too late.

When "Agile" teams only want to code something once – no acceptance that usability testing might reveal a failing that necessitates another iteration – it's just more waterfall development with Agile-flavoured rituals and ceremonies.

#agile #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #waterfall #iteration #usability #UX #UXD #UR #UserResearch

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, most of y’all don’t know what it’s like to be a fediverse developer of a popular project and have to deal with all the negative feedback and personal attacks

Let’s be nicer to the devs of the fediverse who have been doing this mostly unpaid for the greater good, all I ask is for basic respect!

Anfora, Prismo, Firefish and dozens of other projects have been abandoned by their devs, and I’d bet the fediverse mentality towards devs is part of the reason

FiveSketches, (edited )
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@dansup

One good way to support the Fediverse's volunteer devs: ask them to work with volunteer design and user-research practitioners who help them to develop and test usable designs – before any substantial code is written.

Testing mockups and prototypes with the community would reduce unhappiness all around.

FiveSketches, to design
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I did user research on an Agile team for a few years. I tagged ALL observations, not just those about any sprint's key questions.

As the product team evolved its focus, I was able to slice and dice my data to answer questions we hadn't yet formally asked.

Each time, I could leapfrog the first study into informed follow-up studies.

In the long run, extra Time Tagging = Time Saved when starting a new product direction.

FiveSketches,
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I tagged research data over multiple years.

There was an unintended outcome of tagging ALL observations from every Agile sprint—rather than only tagging observations that related to the current sprint's research focus…

As time passed, some of the qualitative data became quantitative as the sample size grew.

FiveSketches,
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@Chris There are specialty tools for this.

I used Reframer, by Optimal Workshop. Aurelius is nice, too. There are others. Schedule some free demos.

If you use a tool that has a speech-to-text transcription function, it makes data entry from recordings faster. Tagging takes time, of course. You need a robust set of keywords that cover: your domain and its features, user emotions and attitudes, user-performance tags, and specific UI parts.

Also, ensure any cloud data storage is GDPR compliant.

masukomi, to random
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What's the secret 14th language Babbel?!?!

FiveSketches,
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@masukomi Rookie content mistake: do not enumerate things, because that guarantees the number will change at the last minute.

FiveSketches, to UXDesign
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Qwerty keyboards are laid out to keep the arms of a mechanical typewriter from hitting each other as you type, because letters that are more commonly used side by side are farther apart on the "keyboard".

Thumb typing has different constraints. There's probably a case for a different keyboard layout, now, to reduce common typos.

Who would research new layouts and the demand? One of the O/S publishers?

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@bragefuglseth
I am trying it now!

FiveSketches, to accessibility
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At a presentation by a Deaf speaker, Sami.

She says good lip-readers only catch about 30% of what's being spoken.

Movies have misled me to believe lip-readers can recognize almost every word by watching people speak.

FiveSketches,
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In the talk, yesterday, speaker Sami mentioned that, locally, Deaf people use most of the signs you can learn on YouTube.

❔Most❔ Wait a minute, right?

It turns out there are regional sign-language variations, similar to spoken accents, which she called "regional identity".

FiveSketches, to privacy
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One drawback of using an anti-tracking function and continuously deleting cookies is that when you donate to a free site you use, by the next session they have no idea it was you and are again asking for a donation.

Unless you sign in. But that defeats using an anti-tracking function.

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