Karl A L Smith

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5 User Experience (Customer Journey) lies, damn lies and absolute myths

1. Anyone can do user experience, nope! I meet a lot of people claiming to do user experience, process and deliverables aside, they don’t have a usability background so they cannot do user experience. User experience is a solution capability based upon…

#Agile #User #stories is a #UX #method

User stories is another name for a Cognitive Walkthrough I have been involved in Agile for a very long time, mainly because it uses methods from the human computer interaction scientific process (CHI/HCI). Organizational Agility and Business Agility Group (27,000…

#UX Roles vs #IA Roles

This is just a quick post showing the basic level differences between User Experience (UX) Roles and Information Architect (IA) Roles. I’m working on a full model post as well, but that is still being written. User Experience (UX) Roles….

#Getting into #User #Experience Part 2

Doing user experience The first step in user experience needs to be the recognition that every problem is different and will require a separate solution. Because if they are not, then every business is the same which they are clearly…

#User #Experience #UX #Process

The first step in user experience needs to be the recognition that every problem is different and will require a separate solution, in effect there is no quick fix or standard method.

#Getting #User #Experience #UX to work with #Clients

Setting the scene for user experience to work I have over the last few months had several rants about people claiming to be involved in user experience who are not regardless of their job titles. I came across a great…

Human Centred Design (HCD)

User centered design to ISO 13407

User centered design (UCD) is a project approach that puts the intended users (audience) of a product or piece of technology at the centre of its research, design and development. It does this by talking directly to the user at…

12 #UX things you need to know

Getting into user experience, what you need to know? What will a person need to be able to do to get into user experience; 1. Can you think? Not the most subtle way to ask, but can you be creative? Thinking…

#Lies damn lies and #user #experience

User experience has in recent years become the greatest area of fraud and theft in business. The most common request for people involved in user experience is to produce wireframes (low fidelity pictures) a task that a child could do.

Welcome to my blog

About Karl Smith Karl Smith works globally with directors, stakeholders and customers of multi-national enterprises across all verticals and technology stacks whose focus is on new concepts and capabilities that drive customer engagement, interaction and retention. He creates digital companies,…