Yes I say put out all your rubriks, matrices, frameworks, spreadsheet, and bulleted lists. Get to highlighting in any order of sense you can convince yourself will work and make yourself some real live proactive goals that you can work towards. Ah how mighty is the power of organization that it has saved a wretch like me. Here comes the photo a second time just because it has all the highlighter of the rainbow.

With a few minutes and a selection of colours you can quickly organize and complex system and prioritize your focus points within the larger structure.

Hey Ya’ll take a look at my wonderfully orchestrated corporate photo. Who is that girl? I swear no photo-shopping occurred and that I really do look that professional and most of the time I even act it.

When you first glance at something and you instantly understand it then it is legendary. All that Apple hub-a-lub is exactly what it is because there was an epic effect created by layers and layers of design, technology, and human insight. It is the insight I am interested in most of all.

I am obsessed with design for humans and interactivity. I am specifically trained an focused on the understanding of people and their needs and motivations, but because this is a business world we live in I am spending more and more time integrating what customers want and the businesses goals. It sounds so simple as I write it down here, but it is not.

Business goals and customer wants are simple enough to reconcile when you are directly catering to you customers in order to extract the cash, but modern business is ever so much more complicated. For example what is your “customers” are really your employees? You want them to perform their task as efficiently as possible but they hate the tools you provide to accomplish the task. Your customers could be the volunteers who work with your organization. How do you get people to stay engaged and happy working for free?

It is the cumulative effect of design that makes software seem like your buddy, your work seem like play, and makes your days bearable and sometimes if we are lucky better for us all.

usability

Yup! That's pretty darn hard to read with all the confusing colours and funny fuzzy grey text no?

Well now I thought I should start practicing what I am preaching, hence the new blog theme in simple big black and white characters. Hopefully mush easier to zoom in on and generally less clutter.

Really do watch the video its so funny.

Check out the original engadget post that Cora Albrecht shared on G+, after all that’s where I learned of this cool thing.

I am joining an expedition to trap endangered black-flanked rock wallabies for cross-breeding. So where do Black-Flanked Rock Wallabies live? Well deep into the bush, in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara. Yep, that’s where I am headed. See you in a week and a half.

This is a Wallaby a.k.a.Warru at the Monarto Zoo

Furthermore working agile-style applies to many domains, not simply software or web development. It helps eliminate the expensive downtime of people with super specialized skill sets sitting and waiting for “their turn,” something that is bound to increasingly occur as complexity envelopes us. You might not think about it often, but the things we use and depend on everyday are the products of A LOT of highly specialized skilled people. A company generally wants to profit somewhat from the products it makes, and hence working un-Agile-ly is simply a high cost and high risk maneuver, considering the state of economies and market competition.

I personally like it because its so personable and has a veneer of Buddhist thought to it. I am an iteration junkie, maybe that grew out of obsessive compulsiveness and perfectionism, but in an iterative cycle you can always go back and fix a little, just straighten it up you know what I mean?

Another reason I might be a fan of Agile is that I am a firm believer in the awesome Dwight D. Eisenhower’s idea that,  ”Plans are nothing, Planning is everything.” How many times does the wrench get thrown in the works? Followed by the whole toolbox’s worth of knots and kinks, which is an apt analogy because so often your own tools are what complicates and works against you during a project. I think I’ll lead the Agile life, it’s all just an iteration you know?

Agile, it's just so bendy and zen how could you not love it?