Waterfall Bad, Washing Machine Good
Tuesday, August 14, 3:00-3:45 PM
by Leisa Reicheit
There is a commonly held belief that Agile methods and User-Centered Design do not play nicely together. On the contrary, Agile and UCD can be combined to the mutual benefit of either side. Both can learn from and help each other, and work in synchronicity as a robust design and development methodology.
Increasingly, UX practitioners are being exposed to agile working environments and it is important that they are proactive in integrating UX methods into what can be a developer centric methodology. However, all UX practitioners can benefit from understanding and integrating some of the philosophies and practices from agile methodologies in their own workflows.
In this session, you will:
- Learn the principles and practices of Agile methodologies.
- Explore the opportunities for UCD in an Agile environment.
- Discover how designers can learn from Agile, and shape it to better support their work.
About Leisa Reicheit
Leisa is a Principal Consultant at Flow Interactive in London, where she practices contextual research and user-centered design for clients including Transport for London, the BBC and Moo Print.
Leisa has spent the last decade designing interactive experiences under a number of different guises, including project manager, web producer, information architect, user experience designer, interaction designer and general evangelizer of both the internet and networked technology as a whole.
For Leisa's latest ideas and opinions, visit her blog, Disambiguity.