Quiet times in blog land as we’ve been busy in green field development with a new feedback platform for the V1 product line. I’ve been writing more code than normal and was greatly facilitated by using jQuery and jQueryUI.
Using jQueryUI’s inline modal, we support a seamless transition from non-logged-in state to logged-in even [...]
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 [...]
Agile brings a focus on the team as a unit and a lack of willingness to block, or plan for dependencies, around specialists. The term “generalizing specialists” describes the goal for agile team members to become less diversified in the key skills of producing quality software.
A recent heated thread on the Agile-Usability discussion list [...]
The focus of the user experience profession, and notably the information architecture and interaction design specialties, on deliverables is a key source of conflict with agile methodologies. The agile principle of “the last responsible moment” (more) for decisions result in one of the most common dialogues about UX in agile being agilists rejecting the [...]
There’s been a remarkable amount of dialogue lately on user experience design and agile recently. I’ve struggled to do the dialogue justice, but in the meantime I’ve taken one of the key points to heart: we should be focused on adapting traditional methods to a more agile cycle. To that end, here’s a missive both [...]
Live Aid Lab: Original Donation UI
Originally uploaded by andyedmo
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 [...]
Adventures in User Experience and UI Engineering in Agile from Andy Edmonds, most recently working as UX Lead at agile tool vendor VersionOne.
The opinions expressed here are solely my own
