User experience vs. agile development
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user experience design vs. agile development
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Combining agile and IA/design is one of the most difficult challenges. Agile methods such as SCRUM and XP say absolutely nothing about the IA and design process. IA/design are usually driven by a holistic approach which is troublesome to combine with the iterative and incremental nature of agile software development. How can we overcome the problems and work together constructively?
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user experience design vs.
agile development
user experience & brand driven
clash of methods?
holistic vs. incremental
waterfall(picture from Lynn Miller)
agile(picture from Lynn Miller)
attempt 1: fully agile (scrum)
result: piece meal design & user interaction no overall IA/design consistency
attempt 2: upfront IA/design
result: difficult to handle change out of date designs unused designs
attempt 3: post-skinning
result: drift from design intentunnecessary re-factoringdifficult to collect client feedback
we needed ...
... keep the advantages
... while avoiding piece meal
design chunking(picture from Lynn Miller)
sprint 0: the groundwork
define the big picture
fundamentals only
sprint 1 ..n: the project
timing
challenges with chunking
mindsets
communication
artifacts
iteration length
manage this!
no sole truth
