My talk from UX Camp London 2011, about the lie of "No Big Design Up Front," the opinion that UX people need to be less lazy and feckless, and finding the gap between the two where Agile UX can ...
My talk from UX Camp London 2011, about the lie of "No Big Design Up Front," the opinion that UX people need to be less lazy and feckless, and finding the gap between the two where Agile UX can flourish.
This talk was going to be called “Why Agile People are liars and UX People are lazy and feckless” but I try and keep getting lynched to once a month so instead I called it...\n
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I’m also making one very large assumption here, and that is that your team is the right size to deliver the scope of the project you have. If your team needs two UXers and they only have you, that’s a problem that this talk is not designed to address.\n
I’m also making one very large assumption here, and that is that your team is the right size to deliver the scope of the project you have. If your team needs two UXers and they only have you, that’s a problem that this talk is not designed to address.\n
I’m also making one very large assumption here, and that is that your team is the right size to deliver the scope of the project you have. If your team needs two UXers and they only have you, that’s a problem that this talk is not designed to address.\n
I’m also making one very large assumption here, and that is that your team is the right size to deliver the scope of the project you have. If your team needs two UXers and they only have you, that’s a problem that this talk is not designed to address.\n
I’m also making one very large assumption here, and that is that your team is the right size to deliver the scope of the project you have. If your team needs two UXers and they only have you, that’s a problem that this talk is not designed to address.\n
No Big Design Up Front – we all know what this means right? No, you’re wrong. “Design” means a lot of things in software development, and it’s easy for PMs, BAs and us to attach this tenet to the wrong sort of design.\n
Of course because that short uncomplicated planning period doesn’t leave a lot of time to front-load the design, you may have tried doing something like this. This never works because design effort and development effort can be orthogonal. Something gets planned in for i4 that would take more than one iteration to design, and suddenly you’re swamped. No fucking party for you!\n
Of course because that short uncomplicated planning period doesn’t leave a lot of time to front-load the design, you may have tried doing something like this. This never works because design effort and development effort can be orthogonal. Something gets planned in for i4 that would take more than one iteration to design, and suddenly you’re swamped. No fucking party for you!\n
Of course because that short uncomplicated planning period doesn’t leave a lot of time to front-load the design, you may have tried doing something like this. This never works because design effort and development effort can be orthogonal. Something gets planned in for i4 that would take more than one iteration to design, and suddenly you’re swamped. No fucking party for you!\n
Of course because that short uncomplicated planning period doesn’t leave a lot of time to front-load the design, you may have tried doing something like this. This never works because design effort and development effort can be orthogonal. Something gets planned in for i4 that would take more than one iteration to design, and suddenly you’re swamped. No fucking party for you!\n
Of course because that short uncomplicated planning period doesn’t leave a lot of time to front-load the design, you may have tried doing something like this. This never works because design effort and development effort can be orthogonal. Something gets planned in for i4 that would take more than one iteration to design, and suddenly you’re swamped. No fucking party for you!\n
Of course because that short uncomplicated planning period doesn’t leave a lot of time to front-load the design, you may have tried doing something like this. This never works because design effort and development effort can be orthogonal. Something gets planned in for i4 that would take more than one iteration to design, and suddenly you’re swamped. No fucking party for you!\n
Of course because that short uncomplicated planning period doesn’t leave a lot of time to front-load the design, you may have tried doing something like this. This never works because design effort and development effort can be orthogonal. Something gets planned in for i4 that would take more than one iteration to design, and suddenly you’re swamped. No fucking party for you!\n
Oh thank God, you think, this extra iteration gives me a bit more time to front-load the design work! You may have seen this pattern at work, I know Lynn Miller famously wrote a case study around it, and Johanna Kollman has presented it as her research solution: http://www.agileproductdesign.com/useful_papers/miller_customer_input_in_agile_projects.pdf Fortunately Johanna’s not in the room tonight, because...\n
Nope, all that happens is the design work expands to fill the time available – only because it never had enough time to be done right in the first place. Design and development can be more orthogonal than this – you need to either front-load as much as you can, or find ways to simplify the design process and make it responsive to changing priorities.\n
Nope, all that happens is the design work expands to fill the time available – only because it never had enough time to be done right in the first place. Design and development can be more orthogonal than this – you need to either front-load as much as you can, or find ways to simplify the design process and make it responsive to changing priorities.\n
Nope, all that happens is the design work expands to fill the time available – only because it never had enough time to be done right in the first place. Design and development can be more orthogonal than this – you need to either front-load as much as you can, or find ways to simplify the design process and make it responsive to changing priorities.\n
Nope, all that happens is the design work expands to fill the time available – only because it never had enough time to be done right in the first place. Design and development can be more orthogonal than this – you need to either front-load as much as you can, or find ways to simplify the design process and make it responsive to changing priorities.\n
Nope, all that happens is the design work expands to fill the time available – only because it never had enough time to be done right in the first place. Design and development can be more orthogonal than this – you need to either front-load as much as you can, or find ways to simplify the design process and make it responsive to changing priorities.\n
Nope, all that happens is the design work expands to fill the time available – only because it never had enough time to be done right in the first place. Design and development can be more orthogonal than this – you need to either front-load as much as you can, or find ways to simplify the design process and make it responsive to changing priorities.\n
Nope, all that happens is the design work expands to fill the time available – only because it never had enough time to be done right in the first place. Design and development can be more orthogonal than this – you need to either front-load as much as you can, or find ways to simplify the design process and make it responsive to changing priorities.\n
Nope, all that happens is the design work expands to fill the time available – only because it never had enough time to be done right in the first place. Design and development can be more orthogonal than this – you need to either front-load as much as you can, or find ways to simplify the design process and make it responsive to changing priorities.\n
But what happens if you focus on that nice uncomplicated planning? Here’s a typical planning session. Gosh, look at that - you probably know what’s being delivered in R1 a long time before R1 starts development. Note that it’s easier (cheaper) to add time to planning than development, so if you need more time, ask early!\n
But what happens if you focus on that nice uncomplicated planning? Here’s a typical planning session. Gosh, look at that - you probably know what’s being delivered in R1 a long time before R1 starts development. Note that it’s easier (cheaper) to add time to planning than development, so if you need more time, ask early!\n
But what happens if you focus on that nice uncomplicated planning? Here’s a typical planning session. Gosh, look at that - you probably know what’s being delivered in R1 a long time before R1 starts development. Note that it’s easier (cheaper) to add time to planning than development, so if you need more time, ask early!\n
But what happens if you focus on that nice uncomplicated planning? Here’s a typical planning session. Gosh, look at that - you probably know what’s being delivered in R1 a long time before R1 starts development. Note that it’s easier (cheaper) to add time to planning than development, so if you need more time, ask early!\n
But what happens if you focus on that nice uncomplicated planning? Here’s a typical planning session. Gosh, look at that - you probably know what’s being delivered in R1 a long time before R1 starts development. Note that it’s easier (cheaper) to add time to planning than development, so if you need more time, ask early!\n
But what happens if you focus on that nice uncomplicated planning? Here’s a typical planning session. Gosh, look at that - you probably know what’s being delivered in R1 a long time before R1 starts development. Note that it’s easier (cheaper) to add time to planning than development, so if you need more time, ask early!\n
But what happens if you focus on that nice uncomplicated planning? Here’s a typical planning session. Gosh, look at that - you probably know what’s being delivered in R1 a long time before R1 starts development. Note that it’s easier (cheaper) to add time to planning than development, so if you need more time, ask early!\n
So what process does a BA go through to turn analysed requirements into epics? Well, it’s another iterative process. Define what you think the behaviour is, validate that with the stakeholders, refine your assumptions based on their response. Wait a minute...\n
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So here are the BA’s high-level tasks and the corresponding UX tasks. Oooh! I see a synergy!\n
So here are the BA’s high-level tasks and the corresponding UX tasks. Oooh! I see a synergy!\n
So here are the BA’s high-level tasks and the corresponding UX tasks. Oooh! I see a synergy!\n
So here are the BA’s high-level tasks and the corresponding UX tasks. Oooh! I see a synergy!\n
So here are the BA’s high-level tasks and the corresponding UX tasks. Oooh! I see a synergy!\n
So here are the BA’s high-level tasks and the corresponding UX tasks. Oooh! I see a synergy!\n
Also, keep the list of stakeholders with UX input as small as possible. I don’t care how many stakeholders you have, only a subset really need input into UX and design - your job is to whittle that subset to the very minimum. Conspire with the BA on this one, believe me they have strategies for doing this sort of thing.\n
Also, keep the list of stakeholders with UX input as small as possible. I don’t care how many stakeholders you have, only a subset really need input into UX and design - your job is to whittle that subset to the very minimum. Conspire with the BA on this one, believe me they have strategies for doing this sort of thing.\n
Also, keep the list of stakeholders with UX input as small as possible. I don’t care how many stakeholders you have, only a subset really need input into UX and design - your job is to whittle that subset to the very minimum. Conspire with the BA on this one, believe me they have strategies for doing this sort of thing.\n
Also, keep the list of stakeholders with UX input as small as possible. I don’t care how many stakeholders you have, only a subset really need input into UX and design - your job is to whittle that subset to the very minimum. Conspire with the BA on this one, believe me they have strategies for doing this sort of thing.\n
Also, keep the list of stakeholders with UX input as small as possible. I don’t care how many stakeholders you have, only a subset really need input into UX and design - your job is to whittle that subset to the very minimum. Conspire with the BA on this one, believe me they have strategies for doing this sort of thing.\n
Also, keep the list of stakeholders with UX input as small as possible. I don’t care how many stakeholders you have, only a subset really need input into UX and design - your job is to whittle that subset to the very minimum. Conspire with the BA on this one, believe me they have strategies for doing this sort of thing.\n
The last point only applies if you’re not being cavalier about your wireframes like I am\n
The last point only applies if you’re not being cavalier about your wireframes like I am\n
The last point only applies if you’re not being cavalier about your wireframes like I am\n
The last point only applies if you’re not being cavalier about your wireframes like I am\n
The last point only applies if you’re not being cavalier about your wireframes like I am\n
By the time development begins, you’re still not going to have everything ready. But you should know what’s coming, and you should be able to feed a starting point to the developers, and prioritise your own goals for the coming iterations. LIASE WITH THE BAs ON THAT POINT.\n
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We’ll talk about stubbed design and UX debt in a moment\n\n
We’ll talk about stubbed design and UX debt in a moment\n\n
We’ll talk about stubbed design and UX debt in a moment\n\n
We’ll talk about stubbed design and UX debt in a moment\n\n
We’ll talk about stubbed design and UX debt in a moment\n\n
Change is a fact of life in software development. Agile is a tool designed around that fact, and to make it work, Software Engineers have had to develop strategies and tools. Now it’s our turn to either make those strategies apply to UX or develop our own. Because ultimately Agile will allow us to make better things faster.\n
Change is a fact of life in software development. Agile is a tool designed around that fact, and to make it work, Software Engineers have had to develop strategies and tools. Now it’s our turn to either make those strategies apply to UX or develop our own. Because ultimately Agile will allow us to make better things faster.\n
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Stubbed design means that forthcoming requirements don’t need to hold up development in the present. Maybe you have an ugly but functional flow that you can add with minimal branding. Or maybe you have the visual design roughly set but the behaviour is still being refined. Get it to a form where it can be included - maybe that’s just a static image - and get it in there\n
Stubbed design means that forthcoming requirements don’t need to hold up development in the present. Maybe you have an ugly but functional flow that you can add with minimal branding. Or maybe you have the visual design roughly set but the behaviour is still being refined. Get it to a form where it can be included - maybe that’s just a static image - and get it in there\n
Stubbed design means that forthcoming requirements don’t need to hold up development in the present. Maybe you have an ugly but functional flow that you can add with minimal branding. Or maybe you have the visual design roughly set but the behaviour is still being refined. Get it to a form where it can be included - maybe that’s just a static image - and get it in there\n
Flag your stubs so stakeholders in demos clearly know what’s functional and/or final and what isn’t.\nWe use a class to put the stubbed element into pos:rel so that the specificity required to override it is very low - this way we don’t fuck up any prior-positioned elements. Also you can set the nodeploy folder in SVN not to be deployed on releases, so even if the stub class stays in the doc, the image won’t be, and no-one with a life will be any the wiser.\n
Here’s an example of one of my stubs - the behaviours weren’t defined, the js wasn’t written but for demos we put this in to stop stakeholders asking why one of the landing pages was so empty.\nNow, this can be a risky strategy. Stakeholders might see a static image and assume it works. Or they may see the ugly but functional flow and assume that’s how it’s always going to look. So it’s important to have been priming stakeholders on your approach as early as possible.\n
This isn’t the only strategy for dealing with UX debt – you have to work out what works best for you and your team. You could also work one day a week on UX debt, or use the last iteration as a stability rush. Other suggestions for what might constitute UX debt - Legacy Browser Support, or CSS3 enhancements; give example of MW SecondaryAction buttons\n
This isn’t the only strategy for dealing with UX debt – you have to work out what works best for you and your team. You could also work one day a week on UX debt, or use the last iteration as a stability rush. Other suggestions for what might constitute UX debt - Legacy Browser Support, or CSS3 enhancements; give example of MW SecondaryAction buttons\n
This isn’t the only strategy for dealing with UX debt – you have to work out what works best for you and your team. You could also work one day a week on UX debt, or use the last iteration as a stability rush. Other suggestions for what might constitute UX debt - Legacy Browser Support, or CSS3 enhancements; give example of MW SecondaryAction buttons\n
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Here are a bunch of things that either don’t have time to talk about tonight or for the most part I don’t have answers for yet. I want to answer all of these, and I hope you’ll help me do that.\n
Agile, as a discipline, is 10 years old this year. It’s rapidly becoming THE way that software is built. It’s not going to stop and wait for us to catch up, and it’s going to keep innovating and keep making the process leaner. We can try and keep bending our existing tools and processes around Agile, and watch as the theory and practice become ever more divergent, or we can start running to catch up. I believe we can get it right, and we should get it right, because...\n
Agile UX – How To Avoid Big Design Up Front By Pretending Not To Do Big Design Up FrontPresentation Transcript
The Secret Of Agile UX James O’Brien james@sparrk.co.uk
The Secret Of Agile UX Or, How to avoid Big Design Up Frontby pretending not to do Big Design Up Front James O’Brien james@sparrk.co.uk
Who is this guy anyway?
Who is this guy anyway? UX Freelancer for 10 years
Who is this guy anyway? UX Freelancer for 10 yearsAgile UX practitioner for 5 years
Who is this guy anyway? UX Freelancer for 10 yearsAgile UX practitioner for 5 years Sideline in Agile Enablement
Who is this guy anyway? UX Freelancer for 10 yearsAgile UX practitioner for 5 years Sideline in Agile Enablement I HAVE DONE WRONG THINGS
Who is this guy anyway? UX Freelancer for 10 yearsAgile UX practitioner for 5 years Sideline in Agile Enablement I HAVE DONE WRONG THINGS But you can learn from my mistakes
๏ No magic bullets contained within
๏ No magic bullets contained within๏ Do not attempt to implement by rote
๏ No magic bullets contained within๏ Do not attempt to implement by rote๏ Not guaranteed to work with Enterprise Agile, Cargo Cult Agile or Scrumbut
๏ No magic bullets contained within๏ Do not attempt to implement by rote๏ Not guaranteed to work with Enterprise Agile, Cargo Cult Agile or Scrumbut๏ Requires interaction with BAs and Developers
๏ No magic bullets contained within๏ Do not attempt to implement by rote๏ Not guaranteed to work with Enterprise Agile, Cargo Cult Agile or Scrumbut๏ Requires interaction with BAs and Developers๏ Risk of improved delivery and morale
“No Big Design Up Front”
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Design for i1 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Design Design for i1 for i2 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Design Design Design for i1 for i2 for i3 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Design Design Design Design for i1 for i2 for i3 for i4 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Design Design Design Design Design for i1 for i2 for i3 for i4 for i5 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Have aDesign Design Design Design Design fucking for i1 for i2 for i3 for i4 for i5 party i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Have aDesign Design Design Design Design fucking for i1 for i2 for i3 for i4 for i5 party i1 i2 i3 i4 i5 THIS NEVER WORKS
i0 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5Agile’s Dirty Secret: i0
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DesignDesign for i1 for i1 & i2 i0 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
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Design Design DesignDesign for i1 for i2 for i3 for i1 & i2 & i3 & i4 i0 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Design Design Design DesignDesign for i1 for i2 for i3 for i4 for i1 & i2 & i3 & i4 & i5 i0 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Design Design Design Design DesignDesign for i5, for i1 for i2 for i3 for i4 for i1 & i2 & i3 & i4 & i5 plan fucking party i0 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Design Design Design Design Design Have aDesign for i5, for i1 for i2 for i3 for i4 fucking for i1 & i2 & i3 & i4 & i5 plan fucking party party i0 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5
Design Design Design Design Design Have aDesign for i5, for i1 for i2 for i3 for i4 fucking for i1 & i2 & i3 & i4 & i5 plan fucking party party i0 i1 i2 i3 i4 i5 THIS NEVER WORKS
Agile’s Other Dirty Secret: Planning
GatherRequirements Agile’s Other Dirty Secret: Planning
Gather AnalyseRequirements Requirements Agile’s Other Dirty Secret: Planning
Gather Analyse WriteRequirements Requirements Epics Agile’s Other Dirty Secret: Planning
Wait... isn’t that how design works?✦ Pair with BAs during analysis
Wait... isn’t that how design works?✦ Pair with BAs during analysis✦ Wireframe based on requirements and feed those into epics
Wait... isn’t that how design works?✦ Pair with BAs during analysis✦ Wireframe based on requirements and feed those into epics✦ Refine your wireframes as the epics are validated by the business
Wait... isn’t that how design works?✦ Pair with BAs during analysis✦ Wireframe based on requirements and feed those into epics✦ Refine your wireframes as the epics are validated by the business✦ Some IA and UX artefacts will pop out of this process naturally
Wait... isn’t that how design works?✦ Pair with BAs during analysis✦ Wireframe based on requirements and feed those into epics✦ Refine your wireframes as the epics are validated by the business✦ Some IA and UX artefacts will pop out of this process naturally✦ Develop your modular design language
Wait... isn’t that how design works?✦ Pair with BAs during analysis✦ Wireframe based on requirements and feed those into epics✦ Refine your wireframes as the epics are validated by the business✦ Some IA and UX artefacts will pop out of this process naturally✦ Develop your modular design language✦ Only go hi-fi when the release is scoped
Gather Analyse Write Scope Write PlanRequirements Requirements Epics R1 Stories R1 Define Begin Identify UX large-scale IA Wireframe siteRequirements (to feed Epics design into epics) language
Gather Analyse Write Scope Write PlanRequirements Requirements Epics R1 Stories R1 Define Begin Identify UX large-scale IA Wireframe site WireframeRequirements (to feed Epics design Stories into epics) language
Gather Analyse Write Scope Write PlanRequirements Requirements Epics R1 Stories R1 Define Begin Identify UX large-scale IA Wireframe site Wireframe Hi-FiRequirements (to feed Epics design Stories i1 of R1 into epics) language
Align Your Strategies Early
Align Your Strategies Early✦ Mobile First == Agile Minimum Valuable Product
Align Your Strategies Early✦ Mobile First == Agile Minimum Valuable Product✦ User Testing fits with frequent demos and releases
Align Your Strategies Early✦ Mobile First == Agile Minimum Valuable Product✦ User Testing fits with frequent demos and releases✦ Browser Testing fits with Continuous QA
Align Your Strategies Early✦ Mobile First == Agile Minimum Valuable Product✦ User Testing fits with frequent demos and releases✦ Browser Testing fits with Continuous QA✦ Accessibility exposes a layer that automated testing can exploit
Align Your Strategies Early✦ Mobile First == Agile Minimum Valuable Product✦ User Testing fits with frequent demos and releases✦ Browser Testing fits with Continuous QA✦ Accessibility exposes a layer that automated testing can exploit✦ Feedback from the business validates your design
Align Your Strategies Early✦ Mobile First == Agile Minimum Valuable Product✦ User Testing fits with frequent demos and releases✦ Browser Testing fits with Continuous QA✦ Accessibility exposes a layer that automated testing can exploit✦ Feedback from the business validates your design✦ Share knowledge with BAs wherever possible
Support Story Writing
Support Story Writing✦ Feed Wireframes into stories as functional artefacts
Support Story Writing✦ Feed Wireframes into stories as functional artefacts✦ Develop your personas with BAs so they can frame stories around the personas
Support Story Writing✦ Feed Wireframes into stories as functional artefacts✦ Develop your personas with BAs so they can frame stories around the personas✦ Define your UX principles as NFRs
Support Story Writing✦ Feed Wireframes into stories as functional artefacts✦ Develop your personas with BAs so they can frame stories around the personas✦ Define your UX principles as NFRs✦ Let developers know that the wireframes are canonical
Support Story Writing✦ Feed Wireframes into stories as functional artefacts✦ Develop your personas with BAs so they can frame stories around the personas✦ Define your UX principles as NFRs✦ Let developers know that the wireframes are canonical✦ Feed hi-fis if you have them, but keep the developers focused on the wireframes
During Development
Prepare to Refactor
Prepare to Refactor✦ Organise your files to prepare for change
Prepare to Refactor✦ Organise your files to prepare for change http://photoshopetiquette.com/
Prepare to Refactor✦ Organise your files to prepare for change
Prepare to Refactor✦ Organise your files to prepare for change✦ Use design/UX patterns wherever possible
Prepare to Refactor✦ Organise your files to prepare for change✦ Use design/UX patterns wherever possible✦ Use stubbed design and UX debt
Prepare to Refactor✦ Organise your files to prepare for change✦ Use design/UX patterns wherever possible✦ Use stubbed design and UX debt✦ Build a reusable asset library early on
Prepare to Refactor✦ Organise your files to prepare for change✦ Use design/UX patterns wherever possible✦ Use stubbed design and UX debt✦ Build a reusable asset library early on✦ Use a preprocessor like LESS to ensure your CSS can be quickly refactored
Prepare to Refactor✦ Organise your files to prepare for change✦ Use design/UX patterns wherever possible✦ Use stubbed design and UX debt✦ Build a reusable asset library early on✦ Use a preprocessor like LESS to ensure your CSS can be quickly refactored✦ Focus on high-friction targets first - the UX debt will be less painful for users on the low-friction ones
Digression:
Digression:
Digression:We Need To Rethink The Way We Do Deliverables
The web is not flat images any more
The web is not flat images any more✦ We need to be able to show multiple states and animations easily
The web is not flat images any more✦ We need to be able to show multiple states and animations easily✦ We need the rest of the team to be able to understand the scope of a design unambiguously
The web is not flat images any more✦ We need to be able to show multiple states and animations easily✦ We need the rest of the team to be able to understand the scope of a design unambiguously✦ We need to be able to refactor our deliverables quickly, and have the refactoring cascade through the whole project
The web is not flat images any more✦ We need to be able to show multiple states and animations easily✦ We need the rest of the team to be able to understand the scope of a design unambiguously✦ We need to be able to refactor our deliverables quickly, and have the refactoring cascade through the whole project✦ We need to have a tool that supports patterns and modularity
Hannah Donovan✦ What does our 3/4 view look like?✦ http://www.webdirections.org/ resources/hannah-donovan- designing-without-the-browser/✦ http://www.webdirections.org/ resources/hannah-donovan- telling-stories-through-design/✦ @han
Jan Srutekhttp://www.slideshare.net/JanSru/communicating-and- selling-ux-design-deliverables
Project Meteorhttp://projectmeteor.org/
Stubbed Designs?
Stubbed Designs?✦ Stubbed Designs act as placeholders for features that haven’t been designed yet
Stubbed Designs?✦ Stubbed Designs act as placeholders for features that haven’t been designed yet✦ They can also be your progressive enhancement baseline
Stubbed Designs?✦ Stubbed Designs act as placeholders for features that haven’t been designed yet✦ They can also be your progressive enhancement baseline✦ They should be simple, but they don’t need to be ugly
You can flag stubs too.stub:before{width : 64px; height : 64px;background : url(/core/images/nodeploy/flag-stub.png)right top no-repeat;display : block; content:" ";position : absolute; right : 0; top : 0;}.stub{position : relative;}
You can flag stubs too.stub:before{width : 64px; height : 64px;background : url(/core/images/nodeploy/flag-stub.png)right top no-repeat;display : block; content:" ";position : absolute; right : 0; top : 0;}.stub{position : relative;}
UX Debt?
UX Debt?“Good enough” or “quick fix”solutions that get you past a problem quickly
UX Debt?“Good enough” or “quick fix”solutions that get you past a problem quicklyBut too much debt can choke a project further down the line
UX Debt?“Good enough” or “quick fix”solutions that get you past a problem quicklyBut too much debt can choke a project further down the lineSo you must address UX debtperiodically - during i zero or UAT are good times
Defining “Done”
Defining “Done”✦ Don’t be precious about signoff
Defining “Done”✦ Don’t be precious about signoff✦ If it works well enough, sign it off and raise an enhancement - let the client decide how important design perfection is
Defining “Done”✦ Don’t be precious about signoff✦ If it works well enough, sign it off and raise an enhancement - let the client decide how important design perfection is✦ Or track imperfections as defects or UX debt and raise tasks to fix them
Defining “Done”✦ Don’t be precious about signoff✦ If it works well enough, sign it off and raise an enhancement - let the client decide how important design perfection is✦ Or track imperfections as defects or UX debt and raise tasks to fix them✦ Be open to developers’ suggestions but stand firm on the really important stuff
Continuous Availability
Continuous Availability✦ Is horrible and makes it difficult to get into the zone and you can’t listen to music and YOU HAVE TO DO IT
Continuous Availability✦ Is horrible and makes it difficult to get into the zone and you can’t listen to music and YOU HAVE TO DO IT✦ If developers think you’re unapproachable, they’ll guess at implementation – THIS IS BAD
Continuous Availability✦ Is horrible and makes it difficult to get into the zone and you can’t listen to music and YOU HAVE TO DO IT✦ If developers think you’re unapproachable, they’ll guess at implementation – THIS IS BAD✦ Be available with your body language as well as your speech: “My time is infinite and you can have as much as you want”
Continuous Availability Strategies
Continuous Availability Strategies✦ The Sacrificial Lamb – when there are >1 people in a role, they rotate their availability
Continuous Availability Strategies✦ The Sacrificial Lamb – when there are >1 people in a role, they rotate their availability✦ The Scary Face – a physical flag you can raise when you need to focus, but it requires a lot of discipline
Continuous Availability Strategies✦ The Sacrificial Lamb – when there are >1 people in a role, they rotate their availability✦ The Scary Face – a physical flag you can raise when you need to focus, but it requires a lot of discipline✦ No-meeting Hours – you stay available to the team but no meetings can be booked, reduces the chance of being pulled away
Continuous Availability Strategies✦ The Sacrificial Lamb – when there are >1 people in a role, they rotate their availability✦ The Scary Face – a physical flag you can raise when you need to focus, but it requires a lot of discipline✦ No-meeting Hours – you stay available to the team but no meetings can be booked, reduces the chance of being pulled away✦ Be careful not to overuse these and drive devs away!
Leverage QA and Showcases
Leverage QA and Showcases✦ Don’t let the devs destroy the showcase environment - use it for guerilla user testing!
Leverage QA and Showcases✦ Don’t let the devs destroy the showcase environment - use it for guerilla user testing!✦ Ensure the devs focus on making deployment simple so you can incorporate rapid prototyping (but you probably don’t want to do this on the showcase environment)
Leverage QA and Showcases✦ Don’t let the devs destroy the showcase environment - use it for guerilla user testing!✦ Ensure the devs focus on making deployment simple so you can incorporate rapid prototyping (but you probably don’t want to do this on the showcase environment)✦ You can automate some UI and accessibility testing using Selenium: http://code.google.com/p/web- accessibility-testing/downloads/list
Leverage QA and Showcases✦ Don’t let the devs destroy the showcase environment - use it for guerilla user testing!✦ Ensure the devs focus on making deployment simple so you can incorporate rapid prototyping (but you probably don’t want to do this on the showcase environment)✦ You can automate some UI and accessibility testing using Selenium: http://code.google.com/p/web- accessibility-testing/downloads/list✦ While you’re automating, ensure that test data is structured so as to stress the UI
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