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Company: Principal Financial Group

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A User Experience Guru interested in new technology, gadgets and music. I’m an entrepreneurial spirit on the quest for information and meeting new people.

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Grading an Apps Performance to Increase Quality

A recent discussion thread on "UX Seal of Approval" prompted me to write about another example of how you should consider your company's "mental model" to fit UX into it's processes. The original discussion was to determine when and what needed to have a "UX Approval" before a project team could continue. Something that we tried at my company with not so great success (it might work for others but not us).

We realized that a "seal of approval" comes too late in the…

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Posted on July 7, 2010 at 9:00am

How I Fit User Experience into My Company

Fitting a user experience team into my corporation has been one of the most challenging and ongoing struggles since our UX team started a few years ago. Aside from other things, you are up against teams that are already in place doing similar activities, business processes and software development life cycles that already spell out how things should work and people that are comfortable in their roles and don't want to change. As I struggled fighting for change to get UX positioned appropriately… Continue

Posted on August 4, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

The Recession - An Opportunity to Break the Mold

I am sure that several of you reading this are part of an organization cutting expenses and finding other ways to become more operationally efficient. And I am even more sure that each one of you have felt the affects of this in your every day lives in the products you buy and the interactions you have with businesses. We have been asked to become more self sufficient and forced to use self-service applications which have been rushed into existence, and we are seeing the quality of many of the… Continue

Posted on April 16, 2009 at 12:50pm

What is your favorite User Experience Quote?

If any of you follow me on twitter (http://twitter.com/toreym) you might have seen that I will occasionally post a #UXQuote of the day. These quotes are things that I hear throughout my day either from a customer, another employee and even things I catch myself saying.

Taking time to listen to these one-liners can be a very powerful exercise. There is a lot you can glean from a simple one-liner sometimes. When I am constantly on the hunt for a quote of the day it helps me focus on… Continue

Posted on March 23, 2009 at 1:32pm — 12 Comments