I recently had an opportunity to help out a friend by giving his company the ability to sell shirts on the website. When I received the site information all was well, after meeting to discuss the needs of the site and determine what technology to use, I began work.

I recently saw a presentation that talked about a UX Team of One that I am going to blab about.

http://www.slideshare.net/ugleah/how-to-be-a-ux-team-of-one?type=present...

I was first struck by the title, "team of one"... Sort of weird, but I will let that go. This presentation was well put together and pretty well thought out. However, I have yet to see one person, so good that they didn't need at least a second pair of eyes on a project. I just think that for the sake of the product, there should be a team of several.

Innovation is a game that some companies who choose to play must know the rules of in order to be successful. Innovation is more than a buzzword, it is controlled chaos. Innovation is the chaotic explosion that creates heat and fire, that then pushes a piston to create linear energy that then gets turned into rotary motion, that makes it's way to move one's business forward.

I have seen a lot of bad management on different levels of an organization. I have been in the weeds when bad decisions were implemented, I have talked to fellow employees about it, and I have always been on the bottom rung. I have identified some important areas that affect a workforce.

1. Relationships

So today as I was in the elevator heading up to the office, I overheard a conversation about how a product was saved by reducing the number of clicks on the site. This got me thinking about a couple of things....

The number of clicks is not the be-all and end-all to all usability problems. Useless clicks are a symptom of a bigger problem.

So after a lot of hard work, my new portfolio site is up. I have made a lot of improvements from the last site. This site is now running on Drupal, with a custom template that I have created. My old site was all hand coded, and validated, HTML/CSS. Two issues that I was having with my old portfolio site came from the technology and the work presented. On the technology side, it wasn't scalable. On the work side, instead of providing visibility into showing specific work examples, I was just highlighting my past companies accompanied by a bullet lists of work that I did...