Today's web-based applications go live every few weeks. Agile methodologies like Extreme Programming and Scrum, focus on short development cycles, accelerated feedback from users and customers, and incremental delivery. On the technical side these approaches can bring discipline and predictability to short release cycles. But can these incremental methodologies incorporate successful design techniques? Using case studies and examples from their own project experience, Alex and Leslie will discuss how to integrate design and Agile, discussing what works, what problems arise, and most importantly, the changes in mindset that are necessary on an integrated Agile design/implementation team.
7. Design Methods Strategy Graphics User Centered Front End Coding User Interface Information Architecture Interactive Interaction Research User Flow Concepts Design
29. Agile Design “ Make it OK for people to challenge an idea or two, the good ideas can withstand it and the weaker ideas fall away and make room for something [better].” -Brad Bird, Writer/Director of the Incredibles
30. Agile Design “ He’ll take good ideas from wherever they come from.” “He asks you, he wants to know what you think.”
32. Scales of Design Concept Business Goals User Tasks / Motivations Site Flow & Wayfinding Supporting Systems Navigation Widgets Global Styles Language Buttons Graphics Fonts Large Scale Small Scale
33. Scales of Design The Large Scale is tested in the Small Scale. The Small Scale reveals if the Large Scale ideas are solid.
38. Scales of Design Concept Business Goals User Tasks / Motivations Site Flow & Wayfinding Supporting Systems Navigation Widgets Global Styles Language Buttons Graphics Fonts Large Scale Small Scale
49. Scales of Open Design Concept Business Goals User Tasks / Motivations Site Flow & Wayfinding Supporting Systems Navigation Widgets Global Styles Language Buttons Graphics Fonts Large Scale Small Scale