Monthly Archives: May 2010

27
May

Great startup idea!

Published by adil in Entrepreneurship Reply

Tweet As our business continues to expand, we have been facing some interesting new challenges and opportunities.  One that has been on my mind a lot lately is cross-site collaboration.  But no good solutions exist that enable us to feel a little bit more like we are in the same room.   I am tired of seeing startups attack geeky problems that no one cares about.  Virtual team communication tools pose a problem for a lot → Read More

23
May

Agile Design: continued thinking

Published by adil in Development, UX Reply

Agile Design: continued thinking

Tweet In my last post, we just began exploring the idea of agile design.  The quick conclusion was that there are significant similiarties between design and development as creative processes.  Agile thinking can be effectively applied to both.  The big question is about specific implementation.  How would it work? There are two ways that I have seen agility applied to design.  For lack of better terminilogy, I’ll call them the: two-wheel approach one-wheel approach Let’s → Read More

8
May

Agile Design: Myth or Reality?

Published by adil in Development, UX Reply

Agile Design: Myth or Reality?

Tweet So, I have been fortunate enough to be part of a lot of conversations with a lot of smart people recently.  A good number of them have been centered around one topic: agile design.  For me, it’s sort of funny that this topic has come more and more into the spotlight over the last year.  The first time I started talking about ‘Agile Design’ was in 2008, when ModCloth was just starting to build → Read More