Good morning Todd. We've been to adding mini-research projects to kickoff meetings. When you are on a budget, a kickoff meeting is a good opportunity to explore stakeholder expectations of user needs. Not an alternative to real user research, but certainly can help clarify what direction the user research should focus on, and in the case where user research is out of scope or timeline, well, at least its something.
Some of the activities we're doing lately include: Modified prototyping exercise (modified for time, thanks for sharing those templates again) Group card sorting for prioritization purposes 5 Second Test with scoring for initial mood-board creation & evaluation of fit for "look & feel" Open discussion of past project failures, primarily with client side veterans. This is a fun one. Looking forward to your talk next week at UPenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43514 ________________________________________________________________ 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
