1. AGILE UX

2. MICHAEL JOVEL
• UI Developer at startapps
• My mother tells people I am
an international lawyer
•Istopped correcting her
because it is easier
twitter: @mjovel
• Worked with US Navy, email: mjovel@gmail.com
Progressive, University of
Chicago & University of MD

3. HISTORICALLY DESIGN HAS
BEEN BASED ON THE
WATERFALL METHOD

4. CREATIVE BRIEF > DESIGN > APPROVAL > PRINTER > DELIVERY

5. http://uxmag.com/articles/change-on-a-dime-agile-design

6. THAT IS NOT WHAT THEY
WANTED

7. http://uxmag.com/articles/change-on-a-dime-agile-design

8. DON’T GET CAUGHT UP ON
PROCESS

9. VALUE NOT REQUIREMENTS

10. “Eric Reis
4 thstate of agile: A
story does not end at acceptance
but rather must be validated for
value

11. WORK IS MEANINGLESS
UNLESS YOU CREATE VALUE

12. LIVE AND BREATHE RESULTS

13. FROM HYPOTHESIS TO
REQUIREMENTS

14. HYPOTHESIS
• a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its
logical or empirical consequences - merriam-webster

15. WHY HYPOTHESIS?
• Rather
than make assertions it puts forth a questions which
must be then validated
• Engages team creativity

16. WHAT ASSUMPTIONS DO
YOU HAVE THAT IF PROVEN
FALSE WILL CAUSE YOUR
SOLUTION TO FAIL?

17. WE BELIEVE ___________
AND
IF THIS IS TRUE WE SHOULD
SEE __________

18. COLLABORATION

19. DESIGN STUDIO

20. DESIGN STUDIO
• Butcherpaper, painters tape, sharpies and stop watch, grid
template sheets
• Build
small 3-4 person teams composed of designer,
developers and business team.
• Give each team a persona to focus on

21. SKETCH
•5 minutes to create 6-8 sketches individually

22. PITCH
•3 Minutes to pitch to group

23. CRITIQUE
• two ways it accomplished goals
• two ways it failed to accomplish goals

24. TEAM SKETCHING
•5 minutes to iterate on best of individual sketches

25. TEAM PITCH
•3 minute pitch to entire group

26. TOO MANY SECRETS

27. PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY

28. PROMOTE CODE LITERACY

29. CODE LITERACY IS NOT
CODE FLUENCY

30. PAIR DESIGNING
• Make sure designers and developers spend time working
together
• saves time on implementation
• promotes ownership

31. PATTERN LIBRARY
• Library of UI Patterns that developers can use (i.e. buttons,
fields, etc.
• Library of UI Components composed of multiple patterns
(i.e. forms, video player, etc.)

32. VALIDATION

33. WHAT IS THE SMALLEST
AMOUNT OF WORK WE CAN
DO TO VALIDATE OUR
CONCEPT?

34. GET IT IN USERS HANDS!

35. PROTOTYPE
• Paper
• Keynote / Powerpoint
• Axure, iRise, etc.
• Cordova (a.k.a Phonegap)

36. ITERATE