http://uxagile.com Journeys in Agile User Experience Design Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:56:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been dabbling with a "river of news" or activity stream for many months at VersionOne, largely to satisfy my own desire to have a more global view of things happening in the system. We've decided to release this for use, as open source. It's built on the ... http://uxagile.com/2009/10/versionone-activity-stream/ Information radiators are an essential component of the team room, supporting overall awareness by the team. At V1, our most critical screen display is our continuous integration server display of build status, but there are other views: recent changes, the story board, our project dashboard, etc. that are handy to keep ... http://uxagile.com/2009/08/a-jetpack-for-your-information-radiator/ The UPA Conference was great -- it was especially useful to see the wide range of experiences from the UX trade with agile methods. The diversity of scenarios is tremendous. I originally considered submitting the topic of this post, refactoring UX, to the Agile 2009 conference, but decided ... http://uxagile.com/2009/06/howwhyshould-you-refactor-user-experience/ I'm looking forward to attending the Usability Professional's Association (UPA) conference next week. There's a slew of agile focused events. I'm participating in the Best Practices of UCD in AgileWorkshop on Monday, organized by Cindy Lu, Lynn Miller (DBLP, '05 podcast), and Thyra Rauch (I-D). Here's an excerpt from my position ... http://uxagile.com/2009/06/agile-at-upa-2009/ Jurgen Appelo in the .nl has conducted a survey on agile practices. 341 people responded, solicited via Jurgen's blog and twitter. Read more at blog posts 1, 2, & 3. Participants were asked about the agility of different software development practices as well as their importance and ... http://uxagile.com/2009/05/are-personas-prototyping-agile/ 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 ... http://uxagile.com/2009/05/creating-a-web-app-with-jquery-ui/ 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 ... http://uxagile.com/2009/03/spoolcast-on-beyond-deliverables-prototyping/ 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 ... http://uxagile.com/2009/03/the-generalizing-user-experience-specialist/ 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 ... http://uxagile.com/2009/01/ux-design-artifacts-conversation-anchors-not-deliverables/ 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 ... http://uxagile.com/2008/12/style-guide-primer-for-agile-teams/