In the world of design, the first draft is rarely the best one. This is the foundation of iterative design—a methodology that has transformed how products, websites, applications and print materials ...

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Failure. It’s a harsh word. No one enjoys failure. No one ever really says, “Hey, I really want to fail today so I can learn.” Yet failure is an inevitable part of human existence and it plays a ...

Across almost any aspect science, technology, and biology, feedback loops emerge as a fundamental principle orchestrating the harmony between cause and effect, action and reaction. This concept, ...

Iteration is key to success. There is simply no way you can open a dataset and know, ahead of that exploration, how best to display it Christina’s World, by U.S. artist Andrew Wyeth, is considered an ...

In my previous article, I outlined the planning stages that are performed during an XP project, with a particular emphasis on the upfront planning that is ignored in many “XP” projects. This month I ...