Damon Dimmick Damon Dimmick is a user experience designer, agile ux advocate, and ux evangelist based in the metro Boston area. He has spent his career advocating for and designing efficient and pleasant experiences for complex products built by global companies. He is currently the Manager of Interaction Design (Global UX) for Monster.com where he helps jobseekers and employers find each other through the use of sophisticated job search and hiring tools. Damon is also a founding partner of the Subforum design group, a think-tank of UX professionals that advocates grassroots ux research, continuing design innovation, and design responsibility. Damon also shares his thoughts via Twitter.
The rapid pace of UX design in the agile world can lead to shortsighted design decisions. Focusing on addressing the immediate needs of particular user stories within the limits of a sprint can lead to neglect of larger design questions, which can come back to haunt UX designers later.
Sometimes, UX practitioners just need some time to work through big design issues that don’t fit... Read More
