Story Blinders: !BDUF & YAGNI?

While I didn’t get to attend many talks at Agile Dev Practices due to great number of customers and new leads who were willing to participate in a round of usability testing (thanks!), in looking through the proceedings the deck for “From Concept to Backlog: What Happens Before Iteration 0” by Gerard Meszaros resonated to [...]

Live Aid Lab: Original Donation UI

Live Aid Lab: Original Donation UI
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VersionOne is sponsoring the Live Aid Development Lab here at Agile Dev Practices with Bob Payne and Agile Philanthropy.
I’ve been pretty busy doing usability testing behind our booth but have spent some time helping improve the usability of the donation form for the amazing group Mano a [...]

At Agile Development Practices next week…

I’ll be attending the Agile Development Practices conference next week in Orlando. I’ll be bringing along my portable lab, temporarily including a Tobii eye tracker.
Usability testing at conferences is a well recognized technique for getting representative users. See this ixda discussion for more context.
I’ve got several different protocols: for agilists who have no experience with the VersionOne [...]

Welcome to UXagile.com

What happens when a cognitive psychologist + web UI engineer with extensive experience in user research is immersed in a high performance agile team?  Only time will tell…  
With the Scrum Master certification accomplished and a chance to bring Jeff Sutherland in the usability lab, working at VersionOne is providing a Ivy League education in Agile [...]