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Archive for November, 2009

Esquire Magazine Creates Augmented Reality Issue

By Greg Jones

Check out Esquire’s December issue which includes augmented reality content:

Robert Downey Jr. is featured on the cover of the issue, sitting on top of an AR tracker. When you access Esquire’s AR webpage and hold your magazine up to your webcam, you are graced with bonus material throughout the pages of the magazine. Magazines are a great place to debut augmented reality content because it links your print-centric audience to your online channel. When looking at subscription-based magazines, the sweeter the extras, the stronger the consumer connection.

What magazines do you think will follow suit? What kind of bonus material would your audience benefit from?

Agile and User Experience Redux

By Judith Robichaud

This subject has some traction on the internet. Even web usability pioneer Jakob Nielsen is chiming in on the subject. Check out his latest post on integrating UX with Agile. It is encouraging to see that progress is being made on this front and that Jakob bids the old waterfall method good riddance.

Some highlights include:

  • Two separate Sprints for design and development
  • The need for UX teams to keep an eye on the big picture versus approaching a design feature-by-feature
  • The diminishing role of a centralized UX team versus distributing UX members into cross-functional project teams

If you haven’t been following this thread, check out previous posts how Agile and UX can get along as well as a post on the daunting myth of releases every two weeks.