User Driven Development

Improve your development process focusing on the user

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1. User Driven Development
   Improve your development process focusing on the user
   David González
   @dggonzalez
   david@novoda.com
   

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2. Design
   Prototyping
   Scribbles
   Reviews
   Retrospectives
   User testing
   Beta releases
   Development Stakeholders
   

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4. Designers are also nice
   people
   “
   - Sebastiano Poggi
   Android Developer at Novoda
   

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5. Paper prototyping
   is to find as much issues as possible before starting to develop
   

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6. Paper allows you to do and
   redo without fear of losing
   development time
   The Sun Mobile News - Aug 2014
   

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7. Scribbles
   are the minimum representation
   of an element
   

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8. public class FeedItemView extends AspectRatioView {
   private TextView createdText;
   private TextView categoryText;
   public FeedItemView(Context ctx, AttributeSet attrs) {
   super(context, attrs);
   }
   @Override
   protected void onFinishInflate() {
   super.onFinishInflate();
   inflate(getContext(), R.layout.feed_item, this);
   createdText = findById(this, R.id.feed_text_created);
   categoryText =findById(this, R.id.feed_text_category);
   }
   }
   Create a custom view
   

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9. android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="match_parent"
   android:paddingTop="?android:attr/actionBarSize">
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:orientation="vertical">
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:background="@drawable/bg_article_top" />
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:background="@drawable/bg_article_content" />
   
   
   

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11. Iterate
    How do we do it from here?
    

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12. Split the user journey in as
    few steps as possible
    

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13. Guesstimate
    

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15. Acceptance criteria
    

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17. 5 points
    Scribble implementation with local data
    Given I am a logged in user
    And I have previously saved an article
    When I navigate to My Articles
    Then I should see a list of articles
    

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18. 3 points
    Loading screen
    Given I have internet connection
    When I navigate to My articles
    Then the date should be fetched from the API
    And I should see a loading screen
    

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19. 3 points
    Empty screen
    Given I have no saved articles
    When I navigate to My Articles
    Then I should see an empty screen
    

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20. 8 points
    Scribble implementation fetching data
    from API
    Given I have internet connection
    When I navigate to My articles
    Then the date should be fetched from the API
    And I should see a list of saved articles
    

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21. 5 points
    Visual design items
    Given I see a list of articles
    When I navigate to My articles
    Then the list items designs should match
    specifications
    

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22. 5 points
    Interaction with articles
    Given I have a list of saved articles
    When I tap on the article header image
    Then I should see a selected item
    

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23. 8 points
    Response from API
    Given I have a list of saved articles
    When I swipe away one of the elements
    Then the remote item should be deleted
    And I should be notified of the deletion
    

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24. Design reviews
    It’s up to the design team to accept a visual design story
    

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28. Code quality
    

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33. Use Pull Request Builder and Thresholds
    in Jenkins to prevent Technical Debt
    

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39. Sprint reviews,
    retrospectives and demos
    

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42. Show what you achieved
    

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43. Be transparent about what’s
    missing
    

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44. Excite them about what’s
    coming
    

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45. Usability testing
    

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46. Acceptance criteria
    Define goals, what do you
    want to achieve?
    

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47. Pilot tests highlight problems
    early and save your user’s
    time
    

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48. Acceptance criteria
    Define action points, refine
    and test again
    

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49. Nightly releases
    

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51. Thank you!
    David González
    @dggonzalez
    david@novoda.com
    

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