Desi Reuben-Sealey, UXMC

A NN/g Master Certified Design Leader & Speaker
Quantifying Big Data with User Experience

UX – Quantifying Big Data with User Experience

This has long been a subject of mystery in the Big Data and Business Intelligence (BI) industry.  How can you apply User Experience Design to Big Data?  How can it be quantified? Almost all applications are created for a specific purpose.  Openoffice, Microsoft Office and other similar programs are for creating different kinds of documents or
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Beware of the yes men in your office

Beware of the “yes men” in your office

Beware of the yes men in your office! It doesn’t matter whether you run a large corporate organisation, a middle-sized company or a start-up, every company has them. Do you surround yourself with people known as “yes men”, “suck-ups” or “fawners”? This article may indeed be met with much antipathy, but let’s just push that aside
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Picture of two people signing a business contract

Web contracts – why freelancers need them

You get solicited for work, either through a friend of a friend who knows someone who wants a site or you have a good thing going and are getting a steady flow of work coming in. You may even have a laid back and friendly approach when doing your web projects. However each time you
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How to break the office blame game mould

How to break the office blame game mould

Blame culture is a description given to an organisation in which people are blamed for mistakes continually. That makes it very difficult to figure out how to break the office blame game mould. It’s human nature to want to assign blame. Since the dawn of time, we’ve assigned unseen causes to effects that we can’t
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What's wrong with Moon Sky Thinking?

What’s wrong with Moon Sky Thinking?

Well, “what’s wrong with moon sky thinking?” This is what a newspaper article some time ago called “thinking big”. It has been a phrase that admittedly has not caught the world by storm. The phrase referred to is “Sky Moon Thinking”. The article questioned how Google comes up with some of the most ‘out of
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How you can stay positive in the office

How to stay positive in the office

Work can take a toll on anyone, no one is impervious. But, having a positive attitude in your office is a great way to relieve stress and at the same time, improve your productivity. Here are some ways you can do so.