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Design is a team sport

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 28 December 2019

Recently I heard a fellow designer talking about design being a team sport. Just today I found the exact same theme in “The State of UX in 2020”. Yet, this is not a cool coincidence underlining a trend. Good design has always been and will always be a team sport. Law of nature.

I can tell from first-hand experience, I worked both ways: 10 years as a poorly connected freelancer, doing everything on my own with little to no feedback from other designers. And 4 years at IBM with radical collaboration, lots of possibilities for feedback and exchange, and our design team’s own Definition of Done saying “Critiques until the design team is happy”.

Observations

Ihre Schecks

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 11 June 2016

Layout and typography highlight from back in the days when people always had a couple of cheques in their cars. ?

Findings

Rethinking iTunes

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 19 October 2015

interface.fh-potsdam.de/itunes

iTunes, divided into 15 single-purpose apps… Splitting up the monstrum is really overdue, if you ask me, Apple! ;-) And this is indeed a very nice project with even nicer results! (Must’ve been a hell lot of work!)

Though I don’t agree to or understand all of their decisions…

I’d rather disagree to split iTunes into that many apps. E.g. to organize and listen to my music on my computer, why do I need to have 4 apps: Albums, iGear, MusicFinder and Simplay? The decision which app to open to simply search for a track or album (and then listen to it) is really hard.
Do I really need to make a decision for an app if I want to listen to a whole album vs. a single track? Why? I find it rather limiting and patronising if I cannot mix albums and single tracks in one playlist – in one app.
Push “simplifies the sync process”, Sync is “sync (and space) management” and AppControl organizes apps – and syncs them as well. But apps only. Hmmm…
Why is Apple Tags Windows-only?
Someone forgot iTunes U. :-)

Danke @andreasmaks!

Findings

“We are really just a bunch of people working on the same thing.”

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 12 October 2015

It’s easy to define and limit ourselves into the roles we have as job titles. When it comes down to it, we are really just a bunch of people working on the same thing.
Charlie Deets on Medium

… and the rest of this article is surely worth a read as well.

Observations

Inhofer style!

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 4 August 2015

The masters of “No problem, we’ll get that in, too.” are back.

Inhofer-Plakat — Inhofer-CLP, as seen on 4. Aug 2015

Thoughts

Software is good when it is undemanding and predictable.

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 19 July 2015

There is actually nothing else I wanted to say. ☺️

Findings

Pictures of people scanning QR codes

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 30 June 2015

picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/

Findings

The state of in-car UX

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 16 June 2015

In his article on medium.com Geoff Teehan sharply and aptly describes the quality of in-car digital user interfaces, especially the central control units in the center console.

A lot of work ahead there… ?

This is the UI that comes with your new $200,000 Ferrari.

ht @leighshare pic.twitter.com/UQe3SpGc3t
— Geoff Teehan (@gt) December 6, 2013

Findings

What is code?

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 14 June 2015

This is real. A Scrum Master in ninja socks has come into your office and said, “We’ve got to budget for apps.” Should it all go pear-shaped, his career will be just fine.

“What is code?”, Paul Ford in Bloomberg Business

Findings

Brutally Honest Job Titles

Post author By Tim Reiser
Post date 22 May 2015

“Social Media Strategist”
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Person with the Twitter password