This document discusses how design teams and development teams can better collaborate using principles of design thinking and agile development. It provides tips for UX designer Alex and engineer Jo at GoodSoftware, including balancing cross-functional teams, making plans with short iterations, critiquing designs regularly, and pairing designers with developers to break down silos. Both philosophies aim to place users first and respond quickly to changes, and adopting tools from each can help teams work together efficiently.
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How to define responsibilities, cadence, and activities across every layer of a product organization
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- How to design ahead of development without chaos
- How to conduct user research within Agile
- How to deliver consistent UX on tight timelines
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- How to lead design teams through periods of rapid growth
- How to change design processes, build design culture, and scale teams over time
- How to engage engineering and product teams to create a customer-focused organization
UXPin: State of the Union Product Keynote by Marcin Trederuxpin
How UXPin unifies design with code in design systems
Recent design system features in UXPin alongside roadmap
Predictions for the future of design tools.
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- How to quickly identify user groups despite vague assumptions.
- How to define clear features amidst complex requirements and business objectives.
- How to establish efficient UX processes across disjointed teams.
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- How to practice a “design systems first” process of product development
- How to build and govern a design systems operations team
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You'll learn:
How to change your collaboration model for PM, engineering, and design as teams grow
How to define responsibilities, cadence, and activities across every layer of a product organization
How Shopify tackles multi-disciplinary collaboration across product teams
You'll learn:
- How to design ahead of development without chaos
- How to conduct user research within Agile
- How to deliver consistent UX on tight timelines
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You'll learn:
- How to lead design teams through periods of rapid growth
- How to change design processes, build design culture, and scale teams over time
- How to engage engineering and product teams to create a customer-focused organization
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How UXPin unifies design with code in design systems
Recent design system features in UXPin alongside roadmap
Predictions for the future of design tools.
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You'll learn:
- How to quickly identify user groups despite vague assumptions.
- How to define clear features amidst complex requirements and business objectives.
- How to establish efficient UX processes across disjointed teams.
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You'll learn:
- How to create, adopt, and maintain your first design system
- How to practice a “design systems first” process of product development
- How to build and govern a design systems operations team
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Team personas allows us to think about users as teams, and looking at their goals and needs in context of their team. This is the slide deck from the case study by Julia Byron and Omkar Chandgadkar at the O'Reilly Design conference on January 22nd.
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- When in the design process to use it
- What components are used to build one
- How to effectively pitch one
How to create new processes to sustain a design system
How to evolve the way companies build and ship products
How to decide on a governance model for design systems
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The talk will be showing through examples how to get immediate feedback from real users while skipping the development period and use Design Sprints and prototyping for it. It shows the benefits of getting user experience first and how to incorporate this in real products development life while living the Scrum cycles.
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How to structure, govern, and maintain a design system
How to improve design consistency, productivity, and quality with React
How to avoid design debt in short-term and long-term projects
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Everyone has an opinion about how a design should work and knowing what tools to use to make sure your voice is heard can make or break your career as a UX Designer. A well created user journey allows the UX Designer to effectively shepherd the user\\\'s goals into the design process, will dramatically reduce friction between stakeholders and raise the profile of the UX practice within the organization.
In this presentation, you will learn the following:
- Who to include in the user journey creation process
- When in the design process to use it
- What components are used to build one
- How to effectively pitch one
How to create new processes to sustain a design system
How to evolve the way companies build and ship products
How to decide on a governance model for design systems
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Good user research has a big impact on product quality. But Agile teams can struggle to integrate user research at the right places. In this talk by Erin Muntzert and David Sherwin, we talk about how Participatory Design can help Agile teams better understand the needs of their customers and get the right design ideas into their products. This talk has been adapted from a workshop that we have delivered at UX Week, Interaction, and UX London: http://bit.ly/pdesignux
A design sprint is a five-phase framework that helps answer critical business questions through rapid prototyping and user testing. Sprints let your team reach clearly defined goals and deliverables and gain key learnings, quickly. The process helps spark innovation, encourage user-centered thinking, align your team under a shared vision, and get you to product launch faster.
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Great team work takes careful and deliberate design and intention. It doesn't happen by chance. From hiring T-shaped designers and developers with complementary specialized skills and shared values to cultivating a user-focused process and emphasizing continuous learning and improvement, building a great Lean UX team is short of an accident.
When every single team member puts their specialized skills to good work while collaborating with each other day in and day out, magic ensues. Fostering a one-team environment across functions, geographic sites, and even departments is the single most powerful motivator.
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In software there are two key types of work - discovery and delivery. However, that doesn't mean there are different people doing those jobs. If the whole team is responsible for product success, not just getting things built, then the whole team needs to understand and contribute to both kinds of work.
Dual track agile and the UXDX model both convey the approach of design and development working together.
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A hands-on workshop where you will pair up and sketch a design for a mobile app. You will turn those sketches into a clickable prototype and draft a usability test. Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a designer to do this. If you can draw a square, circle, line, and a triangle, you’ll do fine.
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The Google Design Sprint-methodology has been around for quite a while. Anno 2019 it's time to update the process based on experience. Approved by Jake Knapp himself, we now start using Google Venture Design Sprint 2.0, made for rapid innovation & validation in just 4 days.
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Compresses potentially months of work into a few days by start using the Design Sprint Process. Step by step, in just 4 days, rapidly solve big challenges, create new products, or improve existing ones.
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In the product development process, we understand that design is important. So the next question is: who owns design in the product development process?
Today, we are expected to be both fast and flexible. We need to react to changes at a moment’s notice and always be ready to pivot our course of action.
Understanding how we need to change, and why, comes from creative activities like user research. But working fast can make it hard to find the time for this kind of creative work.
That’s where design sprints come in. These concentrated bursts of team collaboration mean getting together for days or a week to focus on a specific design challenge. Design sprints are intense, but are usually very productive.
But what happens if your team is remote?
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5. Alex joins the design team and she
doesn’t have much contact with Jo’s
team. Because she is sitting on a
different floor, she never sees the dev
team apart from some company
meetings.
6. After a few weeks she is given the first design task to do. She has to
design a new feature for the website.
When the design is ready, it goes to the dev team
to be developed. The dev team that was not
involved in any conversations, never saw the
feature before.
7. We can’t build this! This
will take too long to
develop and we have
limited resources :(
8. The feature goes back to the stakeholders but they
ask the dev team to build it anyway.
“We already spent 3 weeks on design!!! Let’s build it
anyway! We think it is the right idea”
9. The dev team builds and ships the feature after 12 months.
Meanwhile things change, the market changes, users don’t need
this feature anymore.
Nobody uses it :(
The business loses money :(
This is an example of a bad process.
13. Agile refers to a set of “methods and practices
based on the values and principles expressed in
the Agile Manifesto”
14. This includes:
1) Responding to change instead of following a strict plan
2) If the requirements shift the development, you change the plan
with agility
3) Delivering fast and often
4) Communication and transparency
15. What is design thinking?
It’s a process that starts with the people you’re
designing for and ends with new solutions that are
tailor made to suit their needs*.
*http://www.designkit.org
16. My definition of design thinking
It is a set of tools that allows designers and non
designers to identify and solve problems keeping
users in mind.
17. We have to remember
Customers values are the same of business values.
Meeting long-term business goals is only possible
when user needs are put first.
18. The problem today
Companies are struggling to bring these two things together
because it seems that devs follow a process, designers follow
another.
The two philosophies in fact run parallel, not at an intersection.
19. What an organisation needs to do to
allow Design thinking and Agile to
work together and to have a lean
approach
21. Make long term plan with short cycles of iterations
Iterations are the key to collect evidence and to
validate decisions with low risk and low cost
22. Build a problem-focused team
The team should be given a problem to solve
instead of solutions to implement. This allows
innovation and creates a feeling of ownership and
accountability among team members
23. Test wisely
Make assumptions, build continuous initiatives, ship and learn. Don’t
be afraid to fail
When you design/build a feature answer the question:
What is the smallest thing with the minimum effort we can do to
test our assumption?
24. Useful design tools and activities that can help Alex
and her dev team to better collaborate and to
increase efficiency:
25. Show, don’t tell
Having workshops with devs and stakeholders is a
good way to align teams and to have all involved.
Bringing everyone in the conversation helps to get
feedback at early stage
26.
27. Whiteboarding and sharing
Share early stage ideas and sketches with devs and
stakeholders using post it, whiteboard or remotely
using mural to move conversation to the next step.
Remove waste!
Tips on remote working
28.
29. Design critique
Having a regular group conversation in order to
analysing a design, and giving feedback on
whether it meets its objectives. (The ultimate goal
of this is to improving a design following some
heuristics)
https://www.figma.com/blog/design-critiques-at-figma/
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
30. A Prioritization Grid to help the team to focus on th
right feature.
A Prioritization Grid from IBM enterprise design thinking toolkit
Use a Prioritization Grid
to help the team to focus
on the right feature or
user story.
31. Pair with devs
and being
imbedded into
dev teams will
help to break silos
32. Have the technical conversation upfront
Have frequent conversations with dev team to
ensure feasibility
