Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile methodologies for discovering user needs

2008-02-18 Thread Luis de la Orden Morais
Hi Jeff, :)). This sounds pretty good. I like the ACD approach but reading you, I agree that one should push for the user discovery and try to exhaust the possibilities. Thanks for sharing this, your email goes straight to my clipping notebook! Cheers, Luis What I would do is have the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile methodologies for discovering user needs

2008-02-17 Thread Stew Dean
Hi Oliver, I think it's rare not to have limited time to do user research. First, and this may be obvious, use what resources you have to you. If you are designing for an end customer then people who deal with end customers on a regular basis will have a lot of the information you need already

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile methodologies for discovering user needs

2008-02-17 Thread Luis de la Orden Morais
Hi Jeff, I am curious, how would you approach a project in which there is no data on who the final users will be and, as it seems from the original question, development has to start? I am assuming all the steps for some kind of user research have been tried and no data could be collected either

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Agile methodologies for discovering user needs

2008-02-16 Thread Dan
Hi User stories are one of the most common Agile methods for this. If you type user stories into google you will find lots of information, but it generally involves sitting down with the users to gather stories which will form the basis of the product backlog. During sprint 0 the user stories