About Julie Lemieux
Agent of change, disruptive designer and product consumability evangelist. Engaged in the tireless pursuit to make software suck less & shine more since 1996.
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A Truly Delightful Experience
Posted on July 5, 2011 | No CommentsIts been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been a very busy girl, travelling around, working with tons of new colleagues and ramping up with my new team. Blogging has... -
Consumer Software Design 101
Posted on December 20, 2010 | No CommentsAny questions? Originally posted on March 5, 2008 at Stuffthathappens.com Did you like this? Share it:Tweet -
The Perfect Team, The Perfect Project
Posted on November 9, 2010 | No CommentsI’ve been fortunate to be part of tight knit, cross-functional User Experience and Design teams. I think that from an organizational perspective, the most successful team I was ever part... -
How Not To Design In A Vacuum
Posted on October 25, 2010 | No CommentsEnsuring the success of any User Experience and Design team starts by its manager properly positioning the group to benefit from the company’s product development process as well as both... -
Taking a Hairpin Turn
Posted on July 11, 2010 | No CommentsMonths ago, I wrote about being laid off in a blog post called Santa Gave Me Time This Year. In it, I expressed my feelings about being laid off for... -
My Design Process – Part II
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsThe process works because when the design/build entire team has visibility into the process, everyone can buy into the design as it is evolving. The entire team is empowered to build... -
My Design Process – Part I
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsWhen I joined Yahoo! Small Business, I started hearing grumbling within Product Management and Engineering that the design process was long and perceived as a bottleneck. I started looking at... -
Cleaning Out My Digital Clutter
Posted on January 8, 2010 | No CommentsI went through 50 or 60 CD-R this weekend in an effort to clear out my digital clutter. The majority of what I found on those disks fell into 3... -
Profile of a Designer
Posted on January 4, 2010 | No CommentsSoftware designers in particular have an interesting job – I’ve often described it to non-software people that I’m a translator, bridging the worlds of the business (requirements) and the builders... -
Santa Gave Me Time This Year
Posted on December 18, 2009 | 1 CommentLayoffs are horrific, let nobody tell you otherwise. My first was as one of “the affected” and many others as a survivor. For me, being one of the latter was... -
Redesign Time
Posted on May 16, 2009 | No CommentsI usually update this site because I am looking for a new job. For the first time in a very long time, this isn’t the case – I’m happily employed... -
Breaking Up Is Easier Than Ever
Posted on July 21, 2008 | No CommentsMy friend Kelli and I were having coffee this weekend when she dropped some sad news – some friends of ours had broken up. “How is Becka doing?” I asked. ...