Answers & Outcomes
The Hostile Sheep team will share its ideas about experience design and product research. We break from the herd on many topics; but also recognize and use many industry-standard patterns and techniques. We will also share templates, case studies, news, and tips.
Directing and managing systems
April 19, 2024
Hostile Sheep has worked with dozens of organizations to design systems their customers love. After a decade of working with a wide spectrum of organizations, from fortune 100 companies to startups to charities, we’ve identified...
Continuous improvement is not a straight line
April 10, 2024
Continuous improvement (often called continual improvement, more on that later) is commonly misperceived as being a process intended to move the needle in a positive way regarding a system, product or service. The misperception is...
It begins with a single step.
April 08, 2024
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” My grandmother used to reassure me using this quote when I was growing up. When things seemed so big that I couldn’t possibly make...
How LinkedIN supported my career, until it didn’t.
March 15, 2024
LinkedIN changed me and I started to hate who I became. I reluctantly joined LinkedIN in 2007, about four years after it was first launched. At first it was more of a digital rolodex; a...
New Hostile Sheep: The Logo
January 05, 2024
Hostile Sheep is changing and it’s really exciting. One of the first things we did, in preparation for 2024, is a reevaluation of our brand. While we’ve evolved the brand in the past, this may...
Moving away from Medium
January 05, 2024
It’s 2024! Happy New Year to everyone; new friends and old friends. I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the future of Hostile Hostile Sheep over the past couple years and this year will...
Experience design templates
July 06, 2021
24 UX deliverable templates created by Hostile Sheep A little while ago, Hostile Sheep published a UX deliverable matrix we produced to help some of our clients understand the kinds of things we can create and...
Experience design deliverables
June 18, 2021
Understanding the products experience designers produce UX deliverables have been a source of confusion since the term “UX” was coined in 2004. In fact, the term UX (or user experience) has recently fallen out of...
Take your vendor to work
May 21, 2021
One of our clients did something really neat. Last week was AWESOME! I’ve been dying to share what I did last Thursday, but I had to wait until I got permission. And, although I have permission...
Job-based Personas
May 17, 2021
Augmenting personas with jobs to be done Design personas have been around since Alan Cooper created them in the 80s. However, the concept of using archetypal market segmentation to help develop software for “target users” has...