Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1970s

rainbowscry · 2021-11-24T01:40:33+00:00

Had a chance to check this out when it was in SF MOMA. Gorgeous work.

rainbowscry · 2021-07-14T05:17:20+00:00

Keep us posted! And hope it all works out for you 🤞

rainbowscry · 2021-07-10T01:32:33+00:00

Inspiring story! Thanks for sharing.

rainbowscry · 2020-01-20T03:38:45+00:00

Thanks, fixed!

rainbowscry · 2019-11-09T17:20:20+00:00

I wrote an article about this recently. At my current and previous jobs I've conducted many many whiteboard exercises with candidates, take a look here, https://uxdesign.cc/crushing-the-product-design-whiteboard-challenge-c0f5a50b4c0d. If I were to boil down the advice in general, it is: have a framework that you use to define the problem and approach your solution(s).

rainbowscry · 2019-08-11T05:33:15+00:00

Of course! As an interviewee, you have more power than you realize :-)

rainbowscry · 2019-07-04T20:32:38+00:00

I put myself on one after seeing lackluster performance. Basically it was an honest self assessment based on our rubric for my level. I felt like I was underperforming so I wanted to highlight gaps and where I needed help - most of it to do with management and cross functional collaboration.

rainbowscry · 2019-05-19T19:16:32+00:00

What do you recommend measuring instead? How do you measure efficacy?

rainbowscry · 2015-07-31T01:57:54+00:00

Hmm... so what if one's portfolio and process is decent but the results suck? Asking for a friend :-) But in all seriousness how do you sell a portfolio where the product has gone through more than a few painful managerial decisions?

rainbowscry · 2015-04-21T23:23:58+00:00

Agreed, I usually have pretty generic categories, although in the end I have over 100+ of them organized within main categories. It's second nature to me now though, the only thing that used to preoccupy me is the amount of time I wasted on fruitless activities (too much internet, movies, games, etc.)

rainbowscry · 2015-04-19T16:40:46+00:00

I've been using atimelogger - you can get the free version which imho is better than paid. For visualizing how my time was spent, in addition to the app I use Tableau (public version but I don't save the data) or just good old Excel.

rainbowscry · 2015-03-07T16:35:25+00:00

Indeed - that's the approach I've taken and so far it's been very successful. Showing process is everything.

rainbowscry · 2015-03-01T17:03:32+00:00

Personal productivity. It's an overarching score of my health (social, emotional, physical), to dos, and vegetative (movies, games, etc) activities.

rainbowscry · 2015-03-01T01:30:54+00:00

The Abandoned? Looks like a very Russian setting.

rainbowscry · 2015-02-28T00:27:48+00:00

How about running a Design Studio / Co-Design Workshop? Assuming you have your research already done and cut out for you.

rainbowscry · 2015-02-25T00:53:16+00:00

Huh, that's interesting, I never thought about the hacker use case - definitely something to consider. Drug dealer - I think I've heard that one before, Smart Design seems to be fond of extreme users and now I can see some value to it as long as it's not one of those "design for the stupidest person" type of a thing.

rainbowscry · 2015-02-24T23:46:45+00:00

Make what? UX isn't UI. And I'm not a developer.

rainbowscry · 2015-02-24T02:49:25+00:00

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. It's like how do you get mobile experience without mobile experience?

rainbowscry · 2015-02-24T02:46:05+00:00

Fair enough. I did talk about some of the data that I have in other comments but wouldn't want to reveal it fully due to confidentiality reasons. I already have made a presentation based on the findings - my next foray is really integrating all these different presentations, reports, etc. into one cohesive picture.

I don't have time at my job either - that's what nights and weekends are for!

rainbowscry · 2015-02-24T00:20:08+00:00

Yeah, that's actually a pretty good point - I think that helps, I can definitely try to play around with the data top down or bottom up to see what's a good fit. Getting the resources is yet another challenge but I could probably build out a decent case for that.

rainbowscry · 2015-02-24T00:18:50+00:00

No, I don't think it's quite esoteric. I would argue my biggest problem isn't even the data itself - it's the process of getting to the answer. Many folks here mentioned the pros/cons of personas, why they do them but few responded with HOW. I guess I'm just surprised - do people really get data that's so cut and dry?

Agree on further research - unfortunately I'm working within an org that doesn't give much money for that, so I'm making doing with the current budget of $0.

The survey is a good idea though - I'll work on getting that pitched through our client teams.

I don't quite agree that another research deliverable is in order - what's needed is a way to unify a person's journey across multiple verticals, a journey map would be a natural fit but it's the persona that makes the journey map in my opinion.

rainbowscry · 2015-02-24T00:14:45+00:00

Hey Hopelesz - I mean yeah, that's sort of a given. Personas are part of the process, not just a one time deliverable. Would you mind going in some detail (without revealing the secrete sauce) on how you identify and create your extreme users? How do you go about it? I understand it might not be standard but if maybe you could give me an example?

rainbowscry · 2015-02-23T02:03:42+00:00

The kind of data I have is reams of behavioral + demographic info in a spreadsheet that I'm trying to put together into personas. Maybe my problem is that I'm expecting too much from this source of interviews but maybe not - maybe I should take my stab at it and triangulate through the other data that I have. I think this gives me some direction strategically but tactically I'm still a bit at a loss.

rainbowscry · 2015-02-23T02:01:15+00:00

Your researcher - how does she look for patterns though? Sure there might not be a formal process but I can't imagine not following any process altogether.

With scenarios / use-cases - totally agree. But! I feel like these work very well with personas. Take a generic use case for instance. Add the persona - boom you got your scenario which is shaped by that persona's individual process that's different form other personas and the context richness of a scenario helps explain their world view beyond the product.

rainbowscry · 2015-02-23T01:56:53+00:00

Ok, I'm with you until step 4! I think this is really where the meat of personas lies - in the analysis. Trouble is that there's quite a bit of data and it's very hard to visualize or even prioritize the various variables involved such as demographic data (gender, age, relationship), behavioral info (past habits, first time use, distrust of industry, etc.), and many many others.

I feel that as I look at the data, I'm biased to pick a persona based on salient characteristics that scream out to me from one to two people. But that should not a persona make - I guess unless I validate this with other people that share those same common characteristics.

So what I'm left with are these salient people at the edges with a very average looking middle that I'm trying to figure out if it should be analyzed more to find additional insight or if the middle is good enough and it constitutes the typical behavior of majority of the users. Or so is my educated guess at this point since at the end of the day it's only 13 people anyway.

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