More and more, we hear UX design and agile software development in the same sentence. Many flavors of agile have borrowed from UX design practices successfully and agile practices have been influencing design methods for a long time. While there are many overlapping areas, there are fundamental differences between agile …
The design thinking project life-cycle has 6 well-defined stages. Mapping these stages onto a typical Agile development project shows when designers should conduct which UX activities.
As public sector and government agencies come to grips with the fact that UX is critical to project and product success, a common question resurfaces time and again: How do we add Lean UX practices to our current Agile process?
We will start off by explaining a fairly traditional way of development teams working with UX. After this we will explain the current viewpoint of most Agile UX people. Finally we will end by explaining how Lean UX proposes a shift in mindset and a totally different way of working. …
Some of the most difficult roles to integrate in Agile and Lean development are business analysts and user experience (UX) professionals. Transitioning from big upfront design and massive requirements documents to a minimum viable product and just in time design is difficult to understand and implement successfully.
As the agile spirit is embraced by more and more diverse teams on a global scale, the need to integrate designers, including UX practitioners, opens the process for multiple avenues of exploration. In this short talk, Sophie discusses the different personality types that join the team when design comes onboard, …
