Agile Ux

Effective collaboration and communication between designers and developers is critical if your company plans to ship digital products that captivate users and keep them coming back for more. While both roles typically embrace unique personality traits and technical skill sets, the ability to create synergy and fusion between these roles…

Conventional UX design follows more of a Waterfall method. Wherein the stress is more on having all the details upfront. It is usually made of structured phases, each done with an emphasis on the research phase. But, off-late, the company’s design approach is more Agile UX. So, it becomes confusing…

What are some of the things you do on a weekly basis at work? Attend a weekly planning meeting? 1–2–1 with the boss? Lunch with the team? How about speak to your users? …

This is an article in the mini-series on Design in Agile. Here I broach the topic of UX Definitions. No need for UX definitions or requirements if the developer is also the designer and also the product manager. In that case, the person can communicate to herself. She can explain…

This article is part of a series of Design in Agile. Here I address some approaches to this question: How should Handoff (Design → Developer) work in an agile organization? What is design handoff? Design handoff to developers refers to the ceremony event or process of communicating design requirements to the engineers who build…

This is part of a Design in Agile series. Here I try to tackle How should final design approval work in an agile organization? Ideally it’s serial and linear. PM/PO write requirements. These include design by designers or PM. PM approves. Developers give the OK. Then we build it. …

Lean UX and Agile UX are one and the same, they produce the same results, but their routes are quite different! It is clear that Agile UX produces a more fine-tuned product, whereas Lean UX produces multiple products of increased fine-tuning. In a nutshell — the Lean UX approach to…

Learning from experiences at an international B2B SaaS agile company. How to Design in Agile has come up since I started as the first full time UX Designer in a mid-sized B2B SaaS company that uses JIRA within SAFe, the scaled agile framework. …

This article is part of a mini-series on Design in Agile. Here I try to tackle How should project management software be setup to support design organizational workflows? Ideally, from a JIRA perspective, according to the book (or the SAFe coach), Front End stories should sit alongside Back End stories…