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VERACITY AGILE UX

2013

Changing User Experience

Technology Natives versus Technology ImmigrantsImmigrants

Remember edlin, DOS, batch files, and thought ASCII art was coolAdapted as technology changedRemember life without the internetAre more willing to accept bad UX Design

NativesHave NEVER known life without being connectedHave never used low resolution displaysEXPECT all applications to have good UX

This shift has changed the level of skill needed for UXUX is no longer the same as “Making it pretty with curved corners”

Design in the 80’s

Design in the 90’s

Design in 2000’s

Design in 2010

Adapting to the new Expectations

Most developers can no longer do design!They simply don’t have the skills they need

Designers need specialized skillsInformation ArchitectureInteraction DesignVisual DesignUser Interface Development

Design must focus on the needs of the end user, not the developer

Veracity Agile Project ManagementINCEPTION ELABORATION CONSTRUCTION [TRANSITION]

SPRINT 1 SPRINT 2 SPRINT 3 ... SPRINT N

BUSINESS MODELING

DISCOVERY & VALIDATION

PROJECTPLANNING

USER EXPERIENCEDESIGN

ARCHITECTURE

IMPLEMENTATION

TESTING

DEPLOYMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Merging Design and Development

Scrum is GREAT for Development

Scrum forces designers to:Estimate creative tasks that aren’t well definedDo all of their work in short periods of timeSwarm on stories

What would Mona Lisa look like if 5 artists painted it at the same time?

Clearly, Scrum doesn’t work so well for Designers

How do we merge them?Veracity has spent years trying to understand what works bestKanban feeding the Scrum team has worked best so far

What is KanBan

Based on Lean Manufacturing

Quite simple

Uses Swim Lanes and Cards to show story progress

Measures in terms of Throughput, not Velocity

Doesn’t require up front estimation of tasks

KanBan Visually

Product Backlog

Story

Story

Story

Story

Story

Story

Story

Story

Story

Story

Working (Many Lanes)

Ready for Scrum

Sprint Backlog

StoryStory

Story

StoryStoryStory

Story

Story

Story

Swim Lanes

Low Priority on Bottom

Workstreams for Kanban

Design and Prototyping

Development and Platform

Flow Mapping

Prototyping

Review, Test, Pivot

Story Creation &

Review

Proof Of Concept

Review, Test, Pivot

Ready To RunVisuals

Flow-State Charting

Proof Of Concept

Business Alignment

Understand Business

Vision

Identify Feature Sets & Solutions

Product Roadmap

Market and User

Research

3rd Party Investigation

On-Site Visits

Internal / External Research

Personas

Persona Profiles

Scenarios

Review

InformDesign, Implementation, Test, Validate

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