embracing the inevitable: experience design in an agile world
DESCRIPTION
How can designers harness the awesome power of Agile to improve their workflow and work more effectively to build digital products as part of a team? Whether your exposure to Agile methodology is just beginning or you’re already an Agile evangelist, this presentation will arm you with killer tips for developing digital projects right alongside Agile-loving developers and project managers. Grab insights into using tools such as InVision App and custom-built software, like TWG’s AlmostScrum, to improve cross-disciplinary collaboration, and find out why experience design in an Agile world really is inevitable.TRANSCRIPT
Experience Designin an Agile World
Chris Eben, TWG
EMBRACING THE INEVITABLE:
CHRIS EBEN
@ceben @twg
Partner at TWG
YOUR BURNINGQUESTIONS ANSWERED...
• What is experience design in an agile world?
• Why should designers embrace agile?
• What tools and techniques can I use?
So how about that Agile Methodology, eh?
AGILE IS FAST
Agile is like this cheetah
AGILE IS TRANSPARENT
Agile is like this glass bottomed boat
AGILE IS COST EFFECTIVE
Agile is like this smart car
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan
4 VALUES OF AGILE
ISOLATED DESIGN PROCESS
SCOPE RESEARCHDESIGN
PHASEDEPLOY
Sketches Lo-fi Wireframes Hi-Fi Mockups
(UX Design, Information Architecture, Visual Design)
TESTBUILD
So what happenswhen you try and fittraditional practices
into an agile workflow?
DISASTER
DISASTER
• PSDs are not the final product the users see
• The project is delayed for weeks waiting for
design to finish their concepts
• Client ends up dissatisfied and over budget
DESIGN CAN BE AGILE
IN ISOLATION
THINGS WHICHARE INEVITABLE
• Death
• Taxes
• Agile Experience Design?
“
- Jeff Gothelf
Agile was not conceivedwith user experience or
design in mind. ”
- Albert Einstein
“
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A SHIFT IN THINKING
The world as we have created it is a processof our thinking. It cannot be changed without
changing our thinking.
So what does it all mean?
DESIGN CAN BE AGILE
FROM THE BEGINNING
INTEGRATED DESIGN PROCESS
SCOPE RESEARCHWORKING
PROTOTYPEDEPLOY
Sketches Style Guides Front-End(UX Design, Architecture, Visual Design, Interaction Design, UI/UX QA,
TESTBUILD
• No more upfront design
• Experience design begins at the start of a
project
• Designers work alongside the project team
• Constant feedback and iteration
WHAT IS EXPERIENCE DESIGNIN AN AGILE WORLD
Objection!
I don’thave enough time to think
about the solution!
I don’t knowhow to workwith non-designers!
MinimumViableWhat?
Rebuttal!
AGILE IS YOUR FRIEND
• Agile reduces your workload by focussing on sprints
• Research is already in your skillset
• Collaboration is key
TOOLS & TRICKS
Experience Design in an Agile World:
5 Tips to take home
TIP # 1: EMBRACE AGILE RITUALS
www.invisionapp
.comwww.invisionapp.com
TIP # 2: TRY INVISION APP
TIP # 3: BE A SCOUT
TIP # 4: PAIR UP WITH A DEVELOPER
TIP # 5: TEACH, COMMUNICATE, BOND
ARE YOU READY
TO TAKE THE PLUNGE?
Chris Eben
twg.ca
@ceben @twg
http://www.slideshare.net/DesignersEmbracingAgile
THANK YOU
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/06/design-spikes-fit-big-picture-ux-
agile-development/
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/03/how-build-agile-ux-team-integration/
http://boxesandarrows.com/bringing-user-centered-design-to-the-agile-environment/
http://www.rallydev.com/community/agile-blog/top-3-reasons-designers-object-agile-and-how-overcome-them
http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/agileux-2012/overcome-resistance-and-do-the-work
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321804815/samplepages/0321804813.pdf
Further Reading
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