Learning to Play UX Rugby

Learning to Play UX Rugby
Why your agile ux adoption is failing and what to do about it.

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My introduction to Agile...



My introduction to Agile...
Feeding the beast
“There’s a whole team of developers and I’m the only UX designer.
They’re building features faster than I can design them. I can’t keep up!”

Half-Baked UX
“Our PO’s under pressure to deliver the next release and signing off on
features despite crap-ass usability. Help!”

Sprint Tunnel-Vision
“Yes, we technically delivered all the features this sprint, but looking at
the big picture, the design’s an incoherent mess!”



Why the dysfunction?
- Play the waterfall game on an Agile playing field and not even knowing it.
- Lacking the thinking tools to know how to play the Agile game.



Traditional Relay Race
- Team members run alone.
- Collaboration is not built into the game.


Agile Rugby Game
- Intensive and continuous collaboration is core to the game.
- Reach the goal line again and again to win the game.


UX Rugby in Practice
Team Communication
Detailed Design



UX Rugby in Practice >

Team Communication



Our top goal is to…but what’s
most important is that we…tho
what we really must do is to… But I
thought…
Whaa…?

What
about…?

A Relay Race Meeting
Not designed for collaboration.
Slow debugging of issues, differences in understanding.



A Rugby Game Meeting Workshop
An intensive passing game across roles/perspectives.
Iterating toward shared understanding.



Collaboration-Centered Design
A shift toward facilitation as a core skill set.
Buy a Feature
Cardstorming
Collaborative Chartering
Design Studio
Dotvoting
Ideation Clearinghouse
Paired Interviews
Product Box
Product Road Map
Provisional Personas
Speed Boat
Story Mapping
and many more...



Capturing the imagined final product. Can be completed in an hour or less.

Focus/ Warmup/
Boundaries Raw Materials



Cardstorming
- Warms up brain and hands.
- 3-5 minute timebox.
- Each participant writes as many
features they can think of on
separate stickies.
- Becomes a feature palette for
sketching.

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Focus/ Warmup/ Sketching
Boundaries Raw Materials Timebox



Sketching Timebox
- 5m timebox.
- Ensure safety.
- Everyone in the room sketches.
- Sketch individually.
- No rules.
- Clarify that this is research, not
design.

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Critique



Critique
- 2m round-robin, then open crit.
- Take careful notes, attach to the
respective sketches.
- Look for and work to resolve vision
differences.



Designing with Workshops
Learning, applying, and recombining workshop patterns.

Critique



UX Rugby in Practice >

Detailed Design



Tete-a-tete Pairing at NeedFeed: http://nerdfeed.needfeed.com/blog/2011/10/pairing-desks/

Pairing
An intensive one-on-one passing game.
Continuous problem debugging and knowledge distribution.


X-Pairing
Designing in multiple dimensions simultaneously.
Better collaboration means less/lighter documentation.



paper build html/css

A cross-dimensional passing game
Each medium/perspective informs the other.



Learning to Play UX Rugby

making making
software software

Keep doing what you’re doing, but do it smaller, faster and continuously.
—William Pietri



Thanks!
@andersramsay
andersramsay.com
andersr@gmail.com
designingwithagile.com



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