Opposing Mindsets on User Involvement

Are you a user friendly architect?  What is your mindset with regard to including users and other stakeholders throughout the process?  Listening to this podcast will help you reflect on where you fall along the openness spectrum as Bett and Russ have fun debating what an architect's mindset should be toward user involvement.

Reading  recommendations:
Bett's recommendation -- Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/01/the-simple-complex/

Russ' book recommendation -- Death March by Edward Yourdon

http://books.google.com/books/about/Death_March.html?id=FdAZUX9H_gAC

General advice on creating a good user experience:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511335.aspx
Some good quotes on user experience:
http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/7688-30-user-experience-quotes-to-warm-your-soul

Other:
Link to the upcoming Developing Cloud Services Symposium in Tampa.

Contact us at: miller.russ@gmail.com