How can designers harness the awesome power of Agile to improve their workflow and work more effectively to build digital products as part of a team? Whether your exposure to Agile methodology is just beginning or you’re already an Agile evangelist, this presentation will arm you with killer tips for developing digital projects right alongside Agile-loving developers and project managers. Grab insights into using tools such as InVision App and custom-built software, like TWG’s AlmostScrum, to improve cross-disciplinary collaboration, and find out why experience design in an Agile world really is inevitable.

1. Experience Design
in an Agile World
Chris Eben, TWG
EMBRACING THE INEVITABLE:

2. CHRIS EBEN
@ceben @twg
Partner at TWG

3. YOUR BURNING
QUESTIONS ANSWERED...
• What is experience design in an agile world?
• Why should designers embrace agile?
• What tools and techniques can I use?

4. So how about that
Agile Methodology, eh?

5. AGILE IS FAST
Agile is like this cheetah

6. AGILE IS TRANSPARENT
Agile is like this glass bottomed boat

7. AGILE IS COST EFFECTIVE
Agile is like this smart car

8. • Individuals and interactions over processes
and tools
• Working software over comprehensive
documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan
4 VALUES OF AGILE

9. ISOLATED DESIGN PROCESS
SCOPE RESEARCH
DESIGN
PHASE
DEPLOY
Sketches Lo-fi Wireframes Hi-Fi Mockups
(UX Design, Information Architecture, Visual Design)
TESTBUILD

10. So what happens
when you try and fit
traditional practices
into an agile workflow?

11. DISASTER

12. DISASTER
• PSDs are not the final product the users see
• The project is delayed for weeks waiting for
design to finish their concepts
• Client ends up dissatisfied and over budget

14. DESIGN CAN BE AGILE
IN ISOLATION

15. THINGS WHICH
ARE INEVITABLE
• Death
• Taxes
• Agile Experience Design?

16. “
- Jeff Gothelf
Agile was not conceived
with user experience or
design in mind.
”

17. - Albert Einstein
“
”
A SHIFT IN THINKING
The world as we have created it is a process
of our thinking. It cannot be changed without
changing our thinking.

18. So what does it all mean?

19. DESIGN CAN BE AGILE
FROM THE BEGINNING

20. INTEGRATED DESIGN
PROCESS
SCOPE RESEARCH
WORKING
PROTOTYPE
DEPLOY
Sketches Style Guides Front-End
(UX Design, Architecture, Visual Design, Interaction Design, UI/UX QA,
TESTBUILD

21. • No more upfront design
• Experience design begins at the start of a
project
• Designers work alongside the project team
• Constant feedback and iteration
WHAT IS EXPERIENCE DESIGN
IN AN AGILE WORLD

22. Objection!

23. I don’t
have enough
time to think
about the
solution!

24. I don’t know
how to work
with non-
designers!

25. Minimum
Viable
What?

26. Rebuttal!

27. AGILE IS YOUR FRIEND
• Agile reduces your workload by focussing
on sprints
• Research is already in your skillset
• Collaboration is key

28. TOOLS & TRICKS
Experience Design in an Agile World:
5 Tips to take home

29. TIP # 1:
EMBRACE AGILE RITUALS

30. www.invisionapp
.com
www.invisionapp.com
TIP # 2:
TRY INVISION APP

31. TIP # 3:
BE A SCOUT

32. TIP # 4:
PAIR UP WITH A DEVELOPER

33. TIP # 5:
TEACH, COMMUNICATE, BOND

34. ARE YOU READY
TO TAKE THE PLUNGE?

35. Chris Eben
twg.ca
@ceben @twg
http://www.slideshare.net/DesignersEmbracingAgile
THANK YOU

36. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/06/design-spikes-fit-big-picture-ux-
agile-development/
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/03/how-build-agile-ux-team-integration/
http://boxesandarrows.com/bringing-user-centered-design-to-the-agile-environment/
http://www.rallydev.com/community/agile-blog/top-3-reasons-designers-object-agile-
and-how-
overcome-them
http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/agileux-2012/overcome-resistance-and-do-the-work
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321804815/samplepages/0321804813.pdf
Further Reading
RESOURCES