Starting at the end of this month, I’ll be leaving my job. I have a hard time saying out loud I’m taking a break. I find myself thinking “if I loved my job, I wouldn’t need it. If I take a break, it means I’m changing careers, or spinning up…

This article is an English translation of the original Japanese talk, 「どうしてアジャイル会社でデザイン部が必要なのか？」presented at Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2022. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming to my talk.

Learnings from the interaction21 conference — Never did a conference have a more prophetic theme than interaction21 this year. “Design in Perilous Times” came on the heels of interaction20’s “A New Dawn,” which signifies a turning point in the way the design community perceives itself and how it will continue to grow going forward. What is interaction21? interaction21 is…

Happy birthday. You wouldn’t believe what a year it’s been. Tokyo shut down. For a month, you could walk the streets of Shibuya, home of the busiest crosswalk in the world and pass less than ten people. Nowadays most everyone wears masks and people who can work from home, do…

Making organizational change involves being experimental. — (This article is adapted from a session Davide Petrillo and Chelsea Hostetter did at Ride the Lightning in January 2020. It is Part Two of a three-part series on intentionally integrating agile and design.) In the first part of “The Hidden Challenges of Design and Agile”, we discussed the issue…

開発者とデザイナーの違いを理解することで、開発やデザインにおける国境を越えたコミュニケーションにどのように役立つのか、という「sketchy」な記事。 — (この記事は、IDEO TokyoでCode ChrysalisのMiniConf #8: Design Editionのために私が行ったライトニングトークを参考にしています。英語の原版はこちら。 日本語の翻訳の手伝ってくれて、rtanakaに感謝したいです。） こんにちは、チェルシーです。東京のアジャイルコーチングをメインにしている会社yamanecoでUXコーチ兼デザイナーとして働いています。

Making organizational change starts with the words you use. — (This article is adapted from an interactive session Davide Petrillo and Chelsea Hostetter did at Ride the Lightning in January 2020.) Lean UX, Design Sprints, Mobius Loop — all of these frameworks are bringing revolutionary change within the agile community by integrating pieces of design into day-to-day agile practices. As…

A sketchy article on how understanding our differences can help us communicate across borders in development and design. — (This article is adapted from a lightning talk I did at IDEO Tokyo for Code Chrysalis’ MiniConf #8: Design Edition.) Hello, I’m Chelsea. I work as a UX coach and designer at yamaneco, an agile coaching firm in Tokyo, Japan.