Michael Gaigg: Über UI/UX Design

Secret of Pixar’s Success [Link]

Secret of Pixar's Success

A friend of mine sent me this link to an article called The Secret Of Pixar’s Success (How to make great movies and billions of dollars) by Helen O'Hara.

Lessons learned

Besides being an interesting and worthwhile read I'd like to share my lessons learned and how they can apply to web design:

• Innovate (basically: use new technology when the time is right and only when it’s absolutely necessary but continuously try solving real problems, not inventing fictitious ones)
• Genius (have a great team)
• Keep learning (Field studies
• Fail early and often (Prototyping)
• Advice (Heuristic evaluation, expert reviews)
• Don’t be afraid of failure (should be part of the company culture to be successfully applied)
• Share (should also be part of company culture, but mostly isn’t)

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About Michael Gaigg

Michael Gaigg is a User Interface Expert at Esri. He is the team lead of the UI Engineering group in Professional Services and has been designing map applications for over 8 years.