Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UXD

2008-11-06 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
I've been considering the issue of Agile IxD for awhile now, and I recently had a really great project experience integrating my design process with an Agile XP team. Some quick takeaways: * as you suggest, Jessica, defining the interaction design framework (or overall IA structure or whatever y

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UXD

2008-11-06 Thread Joshua Seiden
I would encourage you to look at the work that Lynn Miller (and other members of the Alias/Autodesk team) have done in this area. They have articulated a good framework for bringing Agile methods and UX methods together. My quick google turned up this deck: wiki.fluidproject.org/download/attachme

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UXD

2008-11-05 Thread Navid Sadikali
At my company I observed that - Agile helped the develpment team's motivation as they worked in smaller timeblocks, did less each timeblock, and had something to show at the end of each timeblock. Further, they did implement the idea of "paired programming" which counter to their ideas before doi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UXD

2008-11-05 Thread ELISABETH HUBERT
I agree with Kim in the sense that as the UX expert you should be involved throughout the entire project probably heavily up front and heavily during QA. I also agree that you may tend to be more of a business representative and I think this stems from the UX individual understanding best the high

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UXD

2008-11-03 Thread Kim Mc
UX and agile http://agileproductdesign.com/blog/ Hope this is helpful. Kim - Original Message From: Jessica Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 3, 2008 4:50:45 PM Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Agile & UXD What are your experiences in an agil

[IxDA Discuss] Agile & UXD

2008-11-03 Thread Jessica Petersen
What are your experiences in an agile environment? What has worked for you and what hasn't? My organization is considering employing agile, and I tend to be of the opinion that UXD needs to be at the forefront of the process thinking about things holistically - then breaking the project into ch