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Building Business Partnerships
Before it was integrated into Homestyler, the Autodesk 3D rendering technology used for realistic snapshots was developed as an offering…
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Updating a Popular SaaS Application
Autodesk product designers work together on cross-divisional projects to improve their products across the board. One such effort involved switching…
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Making New Technology Approachable
When Autodesk started branching out into consumer-oriented SaaS applications like Homestyler, a home remodeling and visualization tool, we could no…
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Superior Specifications
Even in these times of Agile principles and lean development processes, sometimes it is necessary to create specifications detailed enough…
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Envisioning the Future of Charting
Along with the next version of emergency room software, which was an evolution of the existing one, I looked at…
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Validating Designs with Real Users
Design Validation with Usability Testing One of the key products in the Horizons Clinicals suite of hospital software was finally…
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When Lives Are at Stake
This thin-client software is for capturing patient data in the emergency room. We built the software in a .NET environment.…
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Design Criteria Define Success
So…we've visited customers and gathered thousands of observations. Now what? Do we send our giant spreadsheet around and call it…
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Observations Reveal Behavior Patterns
At McKesson, user research revealed patterns of behavior, as well as problems we could address with design. I visited 7…
