We are going full bore on LeanUX at PayPal. This presentation just captures a lot of cautions for our teams. These anti-patterns call out bad behaviors or situ…

User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content inventories, taxonomies, mockups and the ever-sacred specifications document (aka “The Spec”) helped define the practice in its infancy. These deliverables crystallized the value that the UX discipline brought to an organization. Over time, though, this deliverables-heavy process has put UX designers in…

Digital.ai glossary and definitions of digital transformation technology terms.

Many agile teams can’t develop good user experiences because UX just isn’t integrated well enough. With the UX Integration Matrix, Jon Innes helps involve UX in every possible part of the agile process.

Scrum and Kanban are two flavours of Agile software development - two deceptively simple but surprisingly powerful approaches to software development. So how do they relate to each other?

My colleague Ajay and I have been working at incorporating lean UX at the enterprise level for over two years. In studying it, I find that there’s a temptation to lay down rules, and if the rules aren’t followed... well, then, you can’t call it lean UX. At the end of the day, though, some lean UX is better than none.

Agile UX is a process that unifies developers and designers through collaboration-centred methodology. Here are our favourite Agile UX quotes.

In this article I explain how to create an agile functional specification, including a downloadable example.

Agile development focuses on rapid iterative & incremental development. This article provides guidelines on how to incorporate it into user-centered design

The MVP. The Minimum Viable Product. It's a dream many designers hope to someday attain, yet it's a difficult one to achieve. This week, author Jerry Cao reminds us that MVP isn't just about keeping the product small, but also finding the best way to test the concept with an audience.

Guest I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.” Unfortunately the Build, Measure, Learn diagram is the cause of that confusion. At first glance it seems like a fire-ready-aim process. It’s time to update Build, Measure, […]

Agile UX: Agile methods and User Experience

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SAFe for Lean Enterprises

How experienced UX practitioners have adapted to work happily in Agile environments Is user experience relevant where you work? 6/10/2008 Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it 01/21/2008 Kicking off the slow software movement 09/23/2007 Struggling to get into Shu business 7/18/2007 Dirty hands required 4/2/2007 Requirements considered harmful 03/18/2007 The mystery of the shrinking story 2/21/2007 Before-during-after-people 1/3/2007 Designing software for two-headed people…