Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Fab Lab - Pemaquid Communications Street: 28 Maple Street, 2nd floor City/Town: Portland, ME
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chow & chat -- pizza, beer, sody pop -- Portland Pie is donating free pizza to all Maine IxDA soiree participants (normal charge for drinks)! hooooraaay & thanks to Portland Pie and generous host, Pemaquid Communications Jist of talk -- Over the last few years the various flavors of agile have taken a greater foothold as the development process de jour and this isn't necessarily a bad thing. But it does raise many questions as to how best incorporate a formal design process within agile development: Should you still do upfront design work? When and where do designers do their work within agile development? How can you avoid an endless agile journey? To answer these questions we'll first explore the why of design, identify the core benefits of being agile and look at how design incorporates within agile development. Kevin Silver bio -- Kevin is an empathetic champion of the end user and has been involved in designing the behavior of digital products since 1995. He has worked on a diverse range of projects for the government, software companies and many nationally recognized brands providing strategic direction and interaction design goodness. As a passionate advocate for Interaction Design, Kevin led the charge in forming an IxDA local group in New Mexico and is currently on the IxDA Global Board of Directors. In his role on the IxDA Board, Kevin oversees more than 80 IxDA local groups from around the world. Currently he is UX Designer at Tyler Technologies working to deliver the next generation of financial software for local governments and municipalities. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
