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Chris Compston
@ndxcc
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…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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Kanban
1 Visualise the workflow
2 Limit work in progress
3 Measure the lead time
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Luke Clum - 2013
http://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 - 2008
http://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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Discuss
…at the bar?