Culture Eats UX Strategy for Breakfast
The article summarizes 8 key programs that UX leaders employ in order to build and sustain strong UX cultures within their companies. These programs can be viewed as a “UX culture palette”. Each program in the palette is composed of activities which UX leaders can use to engage with the various stakeholders, teams, and business functions at their companies. The palette is a tool for thinking more broadly and systematically about practicing UX at scale within a business organization.
Culture Eats UX Strategy for Breakfast
The article summarizes 8 key programs that UX leaders employ in order to build and sustain strong UX cultures within their companies. These programs can be viewed as a “UX culture palette”. Each program in the palette is composed of activities which UX leaders can use to engage with the various stakeholders, teams, and business functions at their companies. The palette is a tool for thinking more broadly and systematically about practicing UX at scale within a business organization.
Coverity Prevent is a static code, analysis tool that automatically scans code bases to root out critical defects which can lead to system failures, run-time exceptions, security vulnerabilities, and performance degradation.
The original product featured a terrible UX. The usage scenarios, company's brand, and product value were all poorly represented by the product's design. I was brought onto the project in 2006 as a consultant to re-imagine the overall experience.
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BEFORE
AFTER
Personas + Usage Scenarios
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Information Architecture
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Concept Wireframes
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Product Screens
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Overview of the design language
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Home page allows quick assessment of debugging run status
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Reports overview page displays a status of the runs by product
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Runs page allows comparison of individual issues between runs
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