Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-05-07 Thread Jim Ungar
Thanks for the plug Itamar. Jeff and I have used the design studio 8 times over the past year to put design ahead of development and quickly explore design alternatives. We have found it to be a great fit for Agile. If anyone would like more details or has questions/comments - please feel free to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-05-07 Thread Itamar Medeiros
I think that was a related post a while back in the list: there was this really interesting talk during the IxDA Interactions '08 conference call "User Interface Design in an Agile Environment: Enter the Design Studio". The video of that talk has recently been made available at: http://interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-05-06 Thread Lene Leth Rasmussen
Hi Manish I will try to answer your questions: In my former organization I was the only designer within the agile development team. I was working on different project at the same time, some was interlinked. The prototyping I would do my self using xhtml, css and basic JavaScript to prototype UI

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-28 Thread Casey Bishop
I've been working in Agile environments for about 2 years, and still consider myself a noob. However, all that has been said I agree with, and in my experience, it seems to be the best approach if you are lucky enough to determine your approach. It could be just my dumb luck, but in the two large

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-28 Thread Laura Francis
Reading this thread on this list has made me really happy! For a while there I was thinking that I was the only person doing things this way, and therefore it was either wrong, or totally radical! I am glad to see its neither :) I still don't think there are many people in the UK working like this

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-26 Thread Bipul Keshri
Well said Rich. I have been on Agile based projects for about 3 years now. My thoughts on how a "start-up interaction designer" can use Agile to his/her advantage: 1. Read about Agile and interpret it as a user centered design methodology. 2. Meet your client. Understand what they want to build,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-21 Thread Laura Francis
Hi Rich I totally agree with all the points you made, in my experience working with UX/UCD and Agile things like making the methodology 'your' methodology, as in whatever works for your organisation is fundamental to success. Working one sprint/iteration ahead is a really good idea, we always star

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-21 Thread Rich Rogan
Hi Laura, Regarding your last point, we're working with "Feature Driven Design" (FDD) methodologies, (along with 3 or 4 other cobbled together methodologies ;). FDD process embeds users/clients/engineers/QA/BA's (and a bunch of other acronyms whom I'm not sure what they do), together in most desig

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-21 Thread amy hillman
The Journal of Usability Studies had a great article on integrating Agile/UCD, written by Desiree Sy last year: http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/2007may/agile-ucd.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/d

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-21 Thread jcgrosjean
Hi, Agile development offers new and interesting perspectives for interaction designers and usability specialists(and great benefits : something to test about every 4 weeks, continuous user feedback, focus on quality and simplicity, lightweight but accurate format of "user stories", ...). But they

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-21 Thread Rich Rogan
I've worked as the UX application design lead within Agile processes for 9 or so years. I've experienced a few key initiatives which increase Design success with Agile, and which make projects more successful in general. Key Initiatives for Design success with Agile process: 1. Be flexible with t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-21 Thread Sebi Tauciuc
Hi Loredana, You can also check the previous threads for more of people's thoughts, as there have been many interesting discussions on this subject: http://ixda.org/search.php?tag=agile Sebi On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Loredana Crisan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are your thoughts on

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-19 Thread Sean Goggins
I think the conflict between design and agile development methods is best understood by reflecting on the values conflict between the two disciplines. Here's a full list of the principles of agile development: http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html These principles are ones I think designers

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-19 Thread Bruno Figueiredo
I have worked recently on a project that used the Scrum methodology applied to UX, and it didn't work quite well. I think that the reasons behind it was that the backlog wasn't properly laid out. I would also advise you not to mix early stages of UX development with implementation as it will really

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-18 Thread Lene Leth Rasmussen
I have used weekly user testings in an agile development environment. It helped me, project managers and developers to keep focus on the users. I had two kinds of prototypes for testing: The prototypes also used to communicate with developers and project managers. And prototypes being very true to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-18 Thread Robert Hoekman Jr
> > What are your thoughts on Interaction Design and the Agile Environment? > There's a Google Group focused on this exact subject, but a word of warning—many of the list members are die-hard Agile purists, and offer very little flexibility in adapted or "skewed" definitions of Agile-with-a-capita

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

2008-04-18 Thread Loredana Crisan
What are your thoughts on Interaction Design and the Agile Environment? Here’s my experience of how extreme programming and design mix: 1) Product requirements are one thing today, another tomorrow, based mainly on strategic (not user) feedback 2) Weekly iteration cycles allow 4-5 days for rese