September SB UX Videos Up
October 5, 2011 Leave a comment
Sad but peaceful. Tribute to Jobs.
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
I was just trying to parse the life experience redesign yesterday, Jobs answered the question back 7 years ago: remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
What Jobs left us is his striving for quality and excellence. It’s not just in Apple product but things he did. I heard tough stories about his personality from his Cupertino Apple staff for but for a man to attain to that success level, you got to have a hard core personality, you got to be ambitious, aggressive and most importantly, working hard, very hard.
Talking about hard work, thanks to Andy Ta, as guilty as I am, by making the man who works 12 hours a day 18, we finally got the two edited and compressed videos up:
Part I: Amber Brown gave us a talk on how their UXR team adopted Kanban as their day-to-day practice. It did not happen overnight. Scrum was first adopted to help manage the overload of projects. A year later, Kanban came in to accommodate the team’s and stakeholders’ needs. Amber detailed us on the several aspects of Scrum that they did not want to let go; the course of the Kanban adoption; and the current process they like to call “ScrumbanUX”.
Part II: To extend Patrick’s talk on Rapid Prototyping in August’s meetup, Zach Forrest gave us an overview of building Citrix Online’s web component library and how UX researchers and developers benefit from the library.
Bon appetit!
