Jared Spool

Article — 5 November 2024 — 2,559 words

Our flag in the sand — How to escape the desert of user needs by integrating agile and user experience

Business — User experience — User research

I have long been an advocate of agile ways of working. One of the things that originally drew me to user experience was the opportunity to have evidence-based ways of understanding the changes you need to make. So I was surprised whenever I encountered people who believed that user experience methods ran counter to the principles of agile.

Article — 9 November 2021 — 1,032 words

Be usable, not consistent, not uniform

User experience

Consistency is often seen as a slam-dunk argument in favour of an initiative. But if you don’t know what you want to a design to be consistent with — and why — then consistency risks confusing your users.

Linknote — 20 September 2019 — 67 words

User experience — User research

Understanding design better by looking from different levels of magnification — Nicola Dobiecka — Website and Communications Blog

My colleague Nicola Dobiecka wrote this brilliant blog post about how designers need to take different approaches depending on the level they are working at. It builds on [Jared Spool’s analogy](https://playbook.uie.com/blog/zooming-in-and-out-of-ux-design-resolutions) with Charles and Ray Eames’ classic film Powers of Ten.

> Essentially, colleagues at different levels of the organisation have different perspectives. All valid, but all require different skills and processes.