Agile UX Product Design with Yana Carstens and Jeff Patton

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Agile UX Product Design with Yana Carstens and Jeff Patton

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Guests

Jeff Patton: Author of User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product and owner of Jeff Patton & Associates.

Yana Carstens: Senior User Experience Designer at TableXI.

Summary

Agile practices help you build software. UX design helps you build the right software. Teams often struggle integrating UX design into agile practice. In this episode, Jeff Patton, author of User Story Mapping, and UX Designer Yana Carstens talk about the importance of bringing UX design together with development and how to bring your team from unconscious competence to conscious competence.

Notes

01:47 - Jeff’s Involvement with Company Product Development

03:31 - The History of Agile Software Development

05:37 - The Role and Integration of the UX Designer

09:00 - Creating Products Without a Design Process

• FUBU

12:21 - Consciousness and Competency

• The Four Stages of Competence

16:08 - Advice for Newbies Striving to Reach the Competence Level in UX

• The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide by Leah Buley

19:11 - Deciding Design Cadences Within Cycles

23:20 - When Designers are Sprinting Ahead of Developers; Lean User Experience

• Implementing Lean UX In Large Organizations

28:48 - Inceptions and Product Strategy Workshops to Integrate Design Into Agile Development

31:16 - Team Development: The Benefits of Hiring Experienced Professionals and Upscaling the People You’ve Got

34:38 - UX Practices in the 90's vs 2010's

• Agile 2017 Conference

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