May 8, 2012 @ 09:30, Room: 13A
Course 11: Agile UX: Bridging the gulf through experience and reflection - Course
Contribution & Benefit: This course will teach participants how user experience can work effectively within agile teams through a team-based design activity, group retrospectives and sharing of real-world experiences.
Abstract » Many in the agile and user experience (UX) communities have identified the need to integrate UX into agile organizations. However, there are challenges to successfully integrating the two. Issues include different mindsets, experiences, practices and goals which create a gulf between UX people and agile developers. Meridium Inc. has partnered with Virginia Tech with the support of an NSF STTR grant to find ways to integrate UX into agile teams. In our approach, extreme scenario-based design (XSBD), we combine elements from several agile and usability processes including XP, Scrum and scenario-based usability engineering. It has been successfully used at Meridium in several projects. In this course, our goal is to present our approach to integrating UX into agile as well as high level practices shared between the different integration approaches. We will encourage critical thinking, reflection and active discussion of the issues surrounding agile UX through a group-based hands-on design activity combined with retrospectives and sharing of real-world experiences.