An interesting article on applying Agile methodologies to user experience design.
Excerpt from the article… 12 common practices of agile UXD:
- Drive: UX practitioners are part of the customer or product owner team
- Research, model, and design up front – but only just enough
- Chunk your design work
- Use parallel track development to work ahead, and follow behind
- Buy design time with complex engineering stories
- Cultivate a user validation group for use for continuous user validation
- Schedule continuous user research in a separate track from development
- Leverage user time for multiple activities
- Use RITE to iterate UI before development
- Prototype in low fidelity
- Treat prototype as specification
- Become a design facilitator
