Product Design with Intent-Final

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Product Design

Agile Projectin an

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Here’s Your Team

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Powerful Person Request

Problem

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Slowly Veer off Course

Problem

Photo credit: Unknown

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Everything is High Priority

Problem

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Every Person is Building a Different Product

Fact

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Do one thing well^

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Strong Center Design

Blend all parts of a software product to make a single impression.

Requirement

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Mish Mash

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Graphic Designers Use Gestalt Principles

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Strong Center Design for Invisible Parts

Microexpression

- Upper lid is raised

- Lower lip is raised

- Nose is wrinkled

- Cheeks are raised

- Lines show below the lower lid

Science of People. Retrieved from http://www.scienceofpeople.com/2013/09/guide-reading-microexpressions/

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North StarWHY this product?

[ What is most meaningful to people]

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North Star Example

Real time traffic intelligence

But has to have basic navigation.

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Strong Center Guides Decision

Does this enhance the product meaning or get in the way of the product meaning?

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Strong Center Example

Spend time on this?

The cheapest gas station on my route.

Reduce battery usage for passive data collection.

Restaurants nearby.

Walking directions.

Out

Out

Out

IN

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Strong Center Design +Agile

Five options to consider

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Option 1

Design up front

Insert dedicated design sprint zero

[ Has same pitfalls as waterfall ]

Sprint 0

Sprint 1

Sprint 2

Sprint 3

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Option 2

Design in each sprint

A little design at the beginning of every sprint

[ Delays development ]

[ Either design or software development productivity suffers ]

Sprint 1

Sprint 2

Sprint 3

Sprint 4

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Design two sprints ahead

Two separate workflows in each sprint

[ Design first makes the process less agile ]

[ Design team has to support different sprints ]

Sprint 1

Sprint 2

Sprint 3

Sprint 4

Option 3

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Option 4

Dedicated design sprints

Sprints oscillate between design & development

[ Developers may not have skills for design sprints]

[ Designers may not have skills for development sprints]

Sprint 1

Sprint 2

Sprint 3

Sprint 4

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Option 5

Designer & developer partnership

Pair a designer with a couple developers

[ Hard to achieve wholeness in the design ]

[ Difficult with distributed team ]

Sprint 1

Sprint 2

Sprint 3

Sprint 4

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works What we have learnedwhat

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Lesson 1

North Star before

green light

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Lesson 2

Hybrid approach works best

A little design up front

Designer partnership with developer

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Lesson 3

Product Designer replaces Product Owner

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We like Agile software development

But…

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But….

Agile won’t fix your products

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Our Philosophy

Product design matters

It transforms a product

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Take a commodity

Bag of features

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Into a unique experience

Transform it

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Theresa Smith

SphereOI [email protected]