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Chris Poteet

Lost in Translation: User-Centered Design

By Chris Poteet on January 20, 2011

It’s very easy when you’re constantly engaged in design work to use terms and phrases that you know mean something, but consistently they are taken to mean something else. One of the worst offenders in the design world is the phrase: “user-centered design.” It has led to more misunderstandings and mistakes then I’d care to […]

Posted in Project Management, Usability, User Experience | Tagged terminology | Leave a response

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

By Chris Poteet on January 11, 2011

I have a couple speaking engagements upcoming that I wanted to point out if you would like to attend. Both of these events have a lot of good speakers and information so I would encourage your participation if you are able. I will, for both talks, make videos which will be reenactments of the presentations […]

Posted in News | Tagged presentation, speaking | Leave a response

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Sample MindMap for SharePoint Taxonomies

By Chris Poteet on November 24, 2010

I remember the first time I was shown the MindManager tool specifically for documenting enteprise-grade taxonomies. For too long tools like Excel had ruled the day, but tools like Excel and Word are too linear and not visual enough for complex taxonomies. Mindjet MindManager has since become my tool of choice for creating and document […]

Posted in Findability, Information Architecture, User Experience | Tagged content types, metadata, mindjet, mindmanager, sitemap, taxonomy, term store | 6 Responses

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