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“The future is already here—it’s just
unevenly distributed.”
William Gibson

Making hard things easier

Picking the right approaches

Understanding how we’re different

Learn how to not ignore dysfunction

Push our teams in the right direction

What to do when
we get stuck

Design is more than this
Poor design can shortchange outcomes

Design workflow has a history
Source: Charles and Ray Eames

And many processes we're familiar with
Source: Gregg Berryman

But are based on different mediums
Source: Gregg Berryman

We've adapted these processes
Source: Gregg Berryman

To serve us better
Source: Gregg Berryman

And tried to make them agile and simple
Source: Gregg Berryman

Source: Chris Bernard

Source: Chris Bernard

Source: Institute of Design

But design planning starts even sooner
Source: Hasso Plattner Institute of Design

And the way we're working is changing
Source: International Design Magazine

Old processes are well understood
Source: Chris Bernard

Perhaps universally understood

Source: Jesse James Garrett

Trouble is here

We can do better

“We don’t have good visibility into project status”
“Our (distributed) teams are not communicating effectively”
“Requirements are not sufficiently defined or tracked”
“We need lightweight, agile design processes”
“Prototyping is not rapid nor integrated”

Design Team
Development Team
One to Four Weeks

Choose process during
team project creation

Quality Work
• Bug • Task
• Exit criteria • Backlog Item
• Usability Issue • Wireframe Task
• Release Note
• IA Task
Planning Project management
• •
Scenario Issue
• •
Use Case Change request
• •
Design Requirement Risk
• •
Content Requirement Design Risk
• Business Requirement
• Interaction Design Idea
Black = MSF work item type
White = new work item type

Yes No

Remaining Work Schedule
Project Velocity Item Reactivation
Scope Creep Requirements Tracking
Item Burndown
Quality Indicator

“Rosario”
• Instant Messenger
• Improved Agile
Process
• Additional Roles
• “Dashboarding”
• What if analysis
2005 2008 • Simple Report
Creation
• Nested Work Items
2008 SP1
2010
2008
2007
2006
2005

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