Teach Your Software Developers This Ideation Design Process

Teach your software developers this Ideation-Design process to reduce your usability work downstream Do you ever feel your usability work involves _ a mop and bucket?

6 slides in 30 minutes , so please refer to the handouts on the Proceedings CD +

With no designers on my Dev teams, I decided to help our software developers to do better
I borrowed from Bill Buxton, GK VanPatter, and Edward De Bono
I had help from my dedicated colleagues and boss (Director of Product Management)
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With help, everyone can work outside their comfort zone for a while Ideation Judgement Experience Thinking

Sketching helps people to ideate, so they can saturate the design space with ideas
Tell me: what do YOU think makes a good sketch?

Each person does 5 + sketches , or you may as well go home
Ideas: cheap, disposable, easy
Saturate the design space
Resketch: borrow + borrow
When someone has fewer than 5 sketches
What Bill Buxton does
Be assertive: ask for 5

Sketching occurs in a process that iteratively but separately uses the team’s creative & analytical strength
Tell me: which hat is what?

Problems and solutions
Take time for white hat, work, before everything
Set four 4-hr meetings
Add’l members add ½ hr
Sketching
5 in advance: mandatory
5 in advance: done alone
The sticking point
Facilitator mustn’t sketch
Guidelines in the handout
Limit black-hat remarks
Stalemate? Rate the: cost, confidence in the estimate, code stability, code maintainability, easy to learn, easy to explain, hard to forget
Got standards? Use those instead
To teach this, use mixed modes, ½ day

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Teach Your Software Developers This Ideation Design Process

by JeromeR on Jun 19, 2008

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