Chris Compston

@ndxcc

Thursday, 3 July 14

…for designers

Agile

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What type of Designer?

Graphic Designer 8%

UX Designer 7%

UI Designer 15%

Web Designer 38%

Multidisciplinary 32%

8%

92%

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Do you work Agile?

Scrum 19%

Kanban 4%

Different / Modified 23%

Doesn’t use 14%

Doesn’t know 40%

46%

54%

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Conclusions

50% of web based designers

don’t use Agile

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Mark Boulton - 2014

“…design is a naturally iterative process.

We make things and then fix things as we go.”

http://markboulton.co.uk/journal/how-we-work

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Waterfall, Scrum and Kanban

Agile Development

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Waterfall

1 Discover

2 Plan

3 Build

4 Review

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Agile

1 Discover

2 Plan

3 Build

4 Review

1 Discover

2 Plan

3 Build

4 Review

1 Discover

2 Plan

3 Build

4 Review

1 Discover

2 Plan

3 Build

4 Review

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1 Split your organisation

2 Split your work & time

3 Optimise the process

Scrum

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Scrum

UX UI Dev Test

Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 Sprint 4

Planning

Daily standups

Sprint Client Approvals

Sprint Retrospectives

Release

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Kanban

1 Visualise the workflow

2 Limit work in progress

3 Measure the lead time

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Kanban

UX UI Dev Test Release

Daily standups

Ticket Client Approvals

Sprint Retrospectives

Sprint 1

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Luke Clum - 2013http://webdesignledger.com/tips/applying-agile-principles-to-design

“…software development isn’t web design, and the agile

method isn’t necessarily a solid template that should be

applied to the design process.”

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How can designers work in

an Agile method?

Agile Design

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1 Find out where you are

2 Take a small step towards your goal

3 Adjust understanding based learnings

4 Repeat

Back to basics

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It’s about change

Minimal Viable Product favoured

over pixel perfect design

Working in the browser

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However…

Constant communication is a must

Be careful of waterfall in iterations

Letting go of control is always scary

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Cennydd Bowles - 2008http://alistapart.com/article/gettingrealaboutagiledesign

“…Agile does allow us to still do the things we hold dear -

research, develop a vision, and test and improve our designs - we

just need new techniques.”

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Google Ventures

Agile Product Design

goo.gl/dS6M7Y

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Day 1 Research

Day 2 Idea generation

Day 3 Idea refinement

Day 4 Rapid prototyping

Day 5 Output

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Hour 1 Research

Hour 2 Idea generation

Hour 3 Idea refinement

Hour 4 Rapid prototyping

Hour 5 Output

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Equal time for research, ideas and prototyping

Ideas from various areas of the business

Potential to have the perfect end product

What’s Great

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Requires full participation of various stakeholders

Only have a prototype to work with

Might have to push into another sprint

The Challenges

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James Archer

“In the world of design, change is an everyday reality,

so Agile is a very natural fit, once you figure out how

to make it work for you. ”

http://forty.co/agile-design-what-weve-learned

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Made By Many

Time Travel

goo.gl/QPvX3N

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Stage 1

Travel into the future, try visiting various

possible futures and experiment with

the time travel.

Stage 2

Explain how far into the future you’ve been

and explain what it looks like.

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Holistic future view of product

Allows designers to regain control

No fixed number of Sprints ahead

Allow for creative exploration

What’s Great

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Misunderstanding from stakeholders

Could easily fall out of Agile process

Working in isolation

The Challenges

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Damon Dimmick

Design Spike

goo.gl/Z09Wpr

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Stage 1

When faced with big picture design issues

mid sprint, pause development and insert

a design spike

Stage 2

Work through the design issue, make a decision

and proceed with sprint

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Works along side other Agile processes

Developer involvement

Backlog can be worked through

What’s Great

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Reactive rather than proactive

Pauses development sprint

Potentially erratic

The Challenges

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Discuss

… any questions?

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