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Alternate dimensions
If you’re a typical designer working in the software world, the majority of products you’ll create will have strictly two dimensional interfaces — length & width only, pixels on the screen. As interfaces have evolved over the years many have gained a very simple kind of "depth": lighting effects, drop... (Continue)
An Insurgency of Quality
Dave Hussman, one of the leaders of the post-agile movement, recently hosted a one-day conference on the topic of “Redesigning Agility”, and invited me to give a plenary talk. The focus of the conference and my talk were how to integrate agile development with interaction design. I was very... (Continue)
Making pagination meaningful
Working with long lists of information over a network, like web email, can be problematic. Very long lists can have a huge performance hit on your servers, leaving the user tapping her fingers waiting on slow page loads, especially on “very thin” clients like mobile devices. To limit the server... (Continue)

Cooper's Q&A "Integrating User Experience and Agile" on video

by Lane Halley on January 16, 2009

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Alan Cooper, David Fore, Lane Halley and Tim McCoy were invited by Pivotal Labs to present a tech talk on Agile and User Experience Design on December 10, 2008. Rather than present a prepared presentation, we took questions from the audience and engaged in an hour of interesting conversation about the challenges of integrating User Experience Design and Agile.

The video is available here.

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Lane Halley

Principal Designer Lane Halley's career spans the formative years of the interaction design profession. Prior to joining Cooper in 1997, she worked in marketing, technical account management, technical writing and product management roles at SSC, Microsoft, Mindscape and SenSage. While at Cooper, Lane has helped companies ranging from start ups to fortune 100 companies create compelling design solutions for enterprise and consumer applications, websites and devices.


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