This reflects my view on it as well. After all, we did have a seminar called "User Interface Design in an Agile Environment", which my limited understanding seemed to speak to including engineers earlier in the process, if only for 'buy in', 'ownership' and other buzzwords. The designer in question would still hold the design-authority, but allowing for the other eyes seems to hold incredible potential. This is hardly kum-bah-yah - there's no doubt I'd thinking some of the engineers are stuffy dorks, and I wasn't entirely convinced this is The New Way to Go, but it does seem to speak to possibilities.
Every author I know has their own way of writing, after all. I love that this list is so vigorously alive :) Scott On Feb 12, 2008 11:04 AM, Cagwin, Virginia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David and Jared, I agree with you both. I'm rolling onto my second agile > project, after 3 years of learning what worked well, failed and how to > recover quickly to still get the product completed, but not on time. We > are using Feature Driven Development (FDD) method. > > Like David mentioned, interaction design must come first. It's the only > way I found a project to work successfully. Otherwise we start > developing "coping mechanisms" like Alan described. > > Jared is right about working as a team. I sit in the same room as the > developers, QA, and the project manager. The collaboration is what > everyone loves about the project. It's my role to help "them" understand > why they cannot succeed without me. I've been so successful at this, > that the developers now come to me before any code is written. > > Maybe I'm naive, but I do think that progress is being made. There are > always lessons learned on each project. Design has to come first and how > we choose to build the product to get it out the door is up to "them". I > just want to make sure I'm present to help along the way. > > What I work like to learn more about is how these design engineers work > with interaction designers. I really didn't get a good grasp of the > process from Alan's article or presentation. > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
