If you are a Senior UX Designer you probably asked yourself how you will progress in your career. A well known career path is becoming a manager. Another one is continuing to be an individual contributor (IC). For Crowdhouse I did research about this topic and want to share my findings here.
My first project idea was to create a robot which: Finds an object, detects the color. If the color is red bring it to a dedicated place.
The end result of one day were 3 distinct robots:
Yesterday we had an UX Book Club Switzerland about the book “Lean UX, second edition” in the office of Zattoo in Zurich. For the first time, we had a video chat with the authors of the book! Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden were so kind to answer our questions. Following you find some of their answers.
Question: What is a good example for a qualitative outcome?
I wanted to try out 3D Printing. I’ll write up my learnings in this blog post so that you have a good way to start if you want to do your own 3d-printing. I chose to print a drainer for placemats, because after cleaning placemats mostly need some minutes to get dry, and I had nowhere to let them dry.
First I tried to prototype the placemat drainer with cardboard, which was not stable enough:
Interesting talk about agentive technologies from Interaction 16 conference:
Agentive technologies are products which do something for you. e.g. the Roomba vacuum cleaner robot cleans for you.
Especially this slide is interesting which shows the new interaction model for agentive technologies.