Jason, I'm in the same situation. Throughout my developer career I've gravitated towards the practices of user experience/ IA / interaction design and have made it my methods for achieving project goals. I do more business analysis than developing now, but approach all projects (big and small) from a user experience standpoint. I'm the only individual in my small information services team that takes this approach. I read a lot and have great mentors from this community and IAI. I follow the same steps everybody else does but on a smaller scale. How do I know it's working? When I get positive feedback. When I hear that "Aha" moment from my research. Getting back to personas, at the beginning of my current intranet project I created scaled down personas. This was new grounds for the other team members (people in various departments) and I didn't want to overwhelm. What was important for me was the discovery from employee interviews and putting it into a format (personas) that I could share with others. The team could really care less about the deliverable - but I learned a lot about how people work and reference that knowledge as the project continues.
You might be interested in Adaptive Path's Leah Buley, who gave presentations of "How to be a UX Team of One." You can see the slides here: http://tiny.cc/n4mej. Gail Gammel Glenview State Bank ga...@gsb.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42970 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
