During her time at Cramer, Judith worked as a Senior User Experience Designer. With specialties in Interaction Design, Information Architecture and Human Factors, Judith worked to discover what each solution needed in order to succeed.
Before joining Cramer, Judith worked as a User Experience Director at Invesra, where she led and implemented user experience strategy for retirement planning tools. Judith has also worked as VP, Interaction Designer for Bank of America, where she supported all global wealth and investment management initiatives.
Can User-Centered Design and Agile Get Along?
Lately there has been a spate of articles cropping up about the fate of user-centered design (UCD) in today’s fast paced, iterative development landscape. Some people think traditional UCD methods such as testing, card sorts and user experience documentation (wireframes and site maps) is antiquated and unnecessary when developers can design something workable then engineer out glitches with regular releases. With the advent of rapid development (Agile), the growth of web application frameworks like Ruby on Rails, and the availability of ready-made widgets, “design” is now easy to do.
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