trying to put me on the spot? :-) I'm not really sure, to be frank. I'd be interested to talk more about it, particularly with people more knowledgeable than I am. If I think about it in a textbook sense I imagine there being nice little iterative circles where each sprint involved some amount of design, testing with prototypes and then concurrent building of aspects of the design that have already been validated. In reality, I am not sure you could get all this going at once - you might have to alternate sprints, where one is focused more on design and prototyping and the next on moving development forward. Or maybe if you are designing something for web delivery, the future model is something like what 37 signals proposes - where you are making it available to the public as you build it and incorporating feedback as it is received.
I think that the tools we have had to date have not readily lent themselves to simultaneous revision of design and the code, and I think that will change moving forward with the introduction of tools like Thermo, and perhaps Blend (I'm not that familiar with it). I'm sure some people will roll their eyes at the idea of simultaneously revising design and code, as this has obviously proven to be a bad idea in many instances. I think it can work if you are refining the design as you move forward, rather than changing it. Anyway, hopefully I will be smarter after the conference. :-) I am sure there are some other people on this list who have more to contribute on this topic. I poked around for a bit in the list archives and found this one article posted earlier by Desiree Sy: http://upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/2007may/agile-ucd.html MT On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Michael Tuminello wrote: > >> For me, I can't say that it does very much. That's part of the >> reason I'm headed down to interaction 08 - for the agile/uxd >> workshop. > > So, how would you see it fitting into Agile if you could have it > your ideal way? > > > Cheers! > > Todd Zaki Warfel > President, Design Researcher > Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. > ---------------------------------- > Contact Info > Voice: (215) 825-7423 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blog: http://toddwarfel.com > ---------------------------------- > In theory, theory and practice are the same. > In practice, they are not. > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
