UX Design is Team Work (Agile & UX)

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Related Blog post: http://www.mangrove.com/blog/1170/ux-design-is-team-work ------------------- A lot of people in the UX field struggle with the transition from waterfall to an Agile/team process. Because we were doing very well, right? We had a complete workflow set-up. We had this great list of deliverables. This old play-an-department thing was absolutely brilliant for the UX discipline. Everybody seemed to be happy with us. Well. We thought. Because I actually think that our old UX design workflow was one of the MAIN reasons we switched from waterfall to an agile process. A lot of our "deliverables", whether they were wireframes, flows or specs, implied that we could grasp the whole product in advance. The results gave security, to our clients, sales persons, developers and others. In this presentation I dive deeper in the background and our lessons learned so far.

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UX is team workUX cocktail hour Rotterdam

Mangrove, 18th of december 2012

Ruben Bos

about

about us

about agile

about ux

security

false

why are we working agile?

why are we working in teams?

Jared Spool

"The biggest irony of the shift to Agile is that it's exactly what the UX world has been

seeking for years. Yet now that it's here, we're wholly unprepared for it."

what we’ve learned (and keeps changing)

connectinghttp://vimeo.com/52861634

more skills, less people

who owns ux?

make ux part of the team

1

become an ux facilitator

2

Jared Spool (again)

"Yet because we couldn't have fast development iterations, we filled up our toolbox with techniques to deliver fully-

thought-out designs to the implementors. This left little wiggle room. And we got good at it."

prototype low-fidelity

3

everything will change

so we better get good at it

research and design up front?

4

do what’s needed!

research and design up front (but just enough)

4

to round things up

interested?• UIE.com

• JohnnyHolland.org

• AgileProductDesign.com

!

• Sketchboarding by Adaptive Pathtemplates & article: http://bit.ly/uxsketch

thanks for listening!

Ruben Bos ruben@mangrove.nl @rubenbos @mangrove