Learning to Play UX Rugby

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Learning to Play UX RugbyWhy your agile ux adoption is failing and what to do about it.

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My introduction to Agile...



My introduction to Agile...

“There’s a whole team of developers and I’m the only UX designer. They’re building features faster than I can design them. I can’t keep up!”

Feeding the beast

“Yes, we technically delivered all the features this sprint, but looking at the big picture, the design’s an incoherent mess!”

Sprint Tunnel-Vision

“Our PO’s under pressure to deliver the next release and signing off on features despite crap-ass usability. Help!”

Half-Baked UX


Why the dysfunction?- Play the waterfall game on an Agile playing field and not even knowing it.- Lacking the thinking tools to know how to play the Agile game.




Traditional Relay Race- Team members run alone.

- Collaboration is not built into the game.



Agile Rugby Game- Intensive and continuous collaboration is core to the game.

- Reach the goal line again and again to win the game.



UX Rugby in PracticeTeam Communication Detailed Design



Team CommunicationUX Rugby in Practice >



A Relay Race MeetingNot designed for collaboration.

Slow debugging of issues, differences in understanding.

What about…?

But I thought…

Whaa…?

Our top goal is to…but what’s most important is that we…tho what we really must do is to…



A Rugby Game Meeting WorkshopAn intensive passing game across roles/perspectives.

Iterating toward shared understanding.



Collaboration-Centered DesignBuy a FeatureCardstormingCollaborative Chartering

Design Studio

Dotvoting

Ideation Clearinghouse

Paired Interviews

Product BoxProduct Road Map

Provisional PersonasSpeed Boat

Story Mappingand many more...

A shift toward facilitation as a core skill set.




Warmup/Raw Materials

Capturing the imagined final product. Can be completed in an hour or less.


Focus/Boundaries


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Cardstorming- Warms up brain and hands.- 3-5 minute timebox.- Each participant writes as many

features they can think of on separate stickies.

- Becomes a feature palette for sketching.







SketchingTimebox

Focus/Boundaries


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Sketching Timebox- 5m timebox.- Ensure safety.- Everyone in the room sketches.- Sketch individually.- No rules.- Clarify that this is research, not

design.







SketchingTimebox CritiqueFocus/

Boundaries


Critique- 2m round-robin, then open crit.- Take careful notes, attach to the

respective sketches.- Look for and work to resolve vision

differences.




Designing with Workshops


Learning, applying, and recombining workshop patterns.


SketchingTimebox CritiqueFocus/

Boundaries



Detailed DesignUX Rugby in Practice >



PairingAn intensive one-on-one passing game.Continuous problem debugging and knowledge distribution.

Tete-a-tete Pairing at NeedFeed: http://nerdfeed.needfeed.com/blog/2011/10/pairing-desks/


http://nerdfeed.needfeed.com/blog/2011/10/pairing-desks/

http://nerdfeed.needfeed.com/blog/2011/10/pairing-desks/


X-PairingDesigning in multiple dimensions simultaneously. Better collaboration means less/lighter documentation.



A cross-dimensional passing gameEach medium/perspective informs the other.

paper build html/css



Learning to Play UX Rugby

Keep doing what you’re doing, but do it smaller, faster and continuously.—William Pietri

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