UX Agile

21 March 2009 | Design, Product Design | andy

These days, there isn’t a more accomplished user experience consultancy than User Interface Engineer. It’s lead, Jared Spool, does a great podcast series called the Spoolcast.

A recent podcast with James Box and Richard Rutter visits some of the notions I expressed in the post “UX Design Artifacts: Conversation Anchors not Deliverables“. The interviewee’s do mention agile eventually and it’s a likely contributor to their rejection of throw it over the wall design work.

But the essence of their point is less dogmatic. Particularly for highly interactive experiences, realizing the critical functionality so that it can be experienced across time makes tangible aspects which are very hard to predict reliably. I’m just through a situation where we didn’t do a strong prototype of a very ajaxy experience and, thankfully, my intuition and design sense seem to have pulled it off this time. In another, more incubative effort, I’m going waaay far down the prototyping stage to really discover the value proposition and interaction sublteties.

Go get the Spoolcast in your iTunes… Jared’s got a wicked sense of humor in addition to boot!