Agile UX: User Experience Design in the world of Agile Software Development

Agile UXUser Experience Design in the world of Agile Software Development
Ben Melbourne
Experience Design Consultant
June 2011

The Challenge
Creating great software products

The Agile manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

Agile Buzz Words
Iterations
Stand-ups
Story Cards
Lean
Feedback Loops
Test & Learn

Agile Dev
Bus
BA
DEV
QA
End Users
IM
UX

UX as a facilitator
A team journey in understanding the user

Multi-disciplinary projects

Product Development Lifecycle

Waterfall UX
UX
Dev
Work Effort
Work Effort
Agile UX
Dev
Project time
UX

How we do it
Practical techniques

… exploration
… evaluation
bring users in continuously

team participation in research

distil findings… fast

lightweight personas

collaborative design
workshops

sketchboards

design walls

build interactive prototypes

test and iterate

know what not to build

Innovation mantra…
Fail Fast
Fail Early
Fail Cheaply

Transform
UX
heavy documentation to lean documents
a linear to a collaborative approach
from a separate practice to an integrated practice
technology is more than just a constraint in design
IT
join in discovery
join in design
expand your measure of success
be more than just a constraint in design

What makes Agile UX different?
Not Big … Rapid, Lightweight, Lean, Agile
Not isolated… Full team, Collaborative, Multidisciplinary
Not just possible… Feasible within current constraints
Not Blind… Considered, Confident, Tested
Not just upfront… Upfront, then Integrated, Continuous
Not on paper… A Product Prototype
Not risky… Reduces business and technical risk

Thank you
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Agile UX: User Experience Design in the world of Agile Software Development

by Ben Melbourne on Jun 30, 2011

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