by Rebecca | Sep 4, 2015 | Influencing Your Organization
Summer is hot enough without conflict with your colleagues on top of it. No but seriously, I hate summer. Who’s ready for fall?!?! Like summer, I would prefer to avoid conflict, if I could. I can’t, though. conflict is a natural part of the process of...
by Rebecca | Aug 28, 2015 | Influencing Your Organization, UX Skills
I’ve spent quite a few hours of my life arguing over bugs. Weeks, months. Who knows how much it adds up to? Did you know that people that identify bugs tend to rate severity dramatically higher than people who didn’t find them? So when you experience and...
by Rebecca | Aug 19, 2015 | UX Skills
As a design student, or sometimes just when you’re off in imagination land, it can feel like the hardest thing you can do is get your design perfect. Would a drop shadow make this more intuitive? Is it subtle enough? Too subtle and no one can see it but me?...
by Rebecca | Jul 30, 2015 | Developer Types
Maybe you’ve identified this developer in the wild, maybe you haven’t yet. But I assure you he’s out there. And he’s not very creative. Okay, I know that sounds harsh. He or she means well. He may even be very creative with an algorithm or a database. But the...
by Rebecca | Jun 24, 2015 | Developer Types
Before we get to the meat of this post, I want to say a few words to kick off a new series of posts that I hope will be amusing as well as helpful: Developer Archetypes. Each post will cover a type of developer one might encounter and tips for better working together...
