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Why your agile ux adoption is failing and what to do about it.Learning to Play UX Rugby
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My introduction to Agile...
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My introduction to Agile...
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My introduction to Agile...
“There’s a whole team of developers and I’m the only UX designer. They’re building features faster than I can design them. I can’t keep up!”
Feeding the beast
“Yes, we technically delivered all the features this sprint, but looking at the big picture, the design’s an incoherent mess!”
Sprint Tunnel-Vision
“Our PO’s under pressure to deliver the next release and signing off on features despite crap-ass usability. Help!”
Half-Baked UX
“Yup, we’re Agile. We’ve been sprinting and doing stories and what-not for about nine months now and are almost ready to start development.”
AGILEFALL/WATERFAGILE
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“What is the Agile process?”“Where does the UX designer fit into an Agile team?”“How do I fit my UX design work into a couple weeks?“What does an Agile functional spec. look like?”“When do we hand UX designs off to devs?”“How does a UX designer work 1-2 sprints ahead of developers?”etc.
One source of the problem...
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One source of the problem...“Where on a bicycle does the steering wheel go?”
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Traditional Relay Race- Team members mostly run alone.- Communication occurs mainly through document hand-offs.- One big crossing of the finish line.
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Agile Rugby Game-Intensive and continuous collaboration.-Communication through direct collaboration.-Reach the finish line early and often to win the game.
UX
Biz
DevGDPM
BA
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A Relay Race MeetingNot designed for collaboration.
Slow debugging of issues, differences in understanding.
What about…?
But I thought…
Whaa…?
Our top goal is to…but what’s most important is that we…tho what we really must do is to…
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A Rugby Game Meeting WorkshopAn intensive passing game across roles/perspectives.
Iterating toward shared understanding.
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Collaboration-Centered DesignBuy a FeatureCardstormingCollaborative CharteringDesign Studio
DotvotingExperience MappingIdeation Clearinghouse
Paired Interviews
Product BoxProduct Road MapProvisional PersonasSpeed Boat Story Mapping...and many more.
A new UX designer toolkit...
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Traditional UXDesign, Usability
What are we making?
Agile UX
How do we make it?
Collaboration, Delivery
Lean UX
Are we making the right thing?
Measuring,validatingproduct/market fit.
Startup
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Visioning
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Design Studio (Divergent Variation)
Warmup/Raw Materials
Capturing the imagined final product. Can be completed in an hour or less.
Warmup/Raw Materials
Focus/Boundaries
SketchingTimebox Critique
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Cardstorming- Warms up brain and hands.- 3-5 minute timebox.- Each participant writes as many
features they can think of on separate stickies.
- Becomes a feature palette for sketching.
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Design Studio (Divergent Variation)
Warmup/Raw Materials
Capturing the imagined final product. Can be completed in an hour or less.
Warmup/Raw Materials
SketchingTimebox
Focus/Boundaries
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Sketching Timebox- 5m timebox.- Ensure safety.- Everyone in the room sketches.- Sketch individually.- No rules.- Clarify that this is research, not
design.
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Design Studio (Divergent Variation)
Warmup/Raw Materials
Capturing the imagined final product. Can be completed in an hour or less.
Warmup/Raw Materials
SketchingTimebox CritiqueFocus/
Boundaries
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Critique- 2m round-robin, then open crit.- Take careful notes, attach to the
respective sketches.- Look for and work to resolve vision
differences.
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Designing with Workshops
Warmup/Raw Materials
Learning, applying, and recombining workshop patterns.
Generating Raw Materialse.g. with Cardstorming
Working in small timeboxesIntensive, focused, productive
Cross-disciplinary CollaborationE.g. with pairing, timeboxed critiques, pitches.
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Detailed Design
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PairingAn intensive one-on-one passing game.Continuous problem debugging and knowledge distribution.
Tete-a-tete Pairing at NeedFeed: http://nerdfeed.needfeed.com/blog/2011/10/pairing-desks/
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X-Pairing (Cross-Functional)Designing across dimensions. Allows for less/lighter documentation, fewer hand-offs.
Mike Long, Thoughtworks Studios
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A cross-dimensional passing gameEach medium/perspective informs the other.
paper build html/css
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Designing while building
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Designing while Building
- Supporting the current sprint- Preparing for the next sprint- Maintaining a whole product
More a logistics than design challenge.
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Automate Collaboration with CadencesApply Agile approach to planning to help ensure whole team is designing together.Can also be applied to field research, usability testing and other UX activities.
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Research
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Agile UX Collaboration, Delivery
Lean UX Measuring,validatingproduct/market fit.
Traditional UXDesign, Usability
Startup
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SHIPPING = DONEAgile says...
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SHIPPING IS ONLY THE BEGINNING
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Outcome-Driven Research “Is this user-friendly?” vs “Would you pay for this?”
Continuous rather than up-front research, enabling integration with Agile.
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Learning to Play UX Rugby...
“Keep doing what you’re doing,but do it smaller, faster and continuously.”
—William Pietri
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