How experienced UX practitioners have adapted to work happily in Agile environments Is user experience relevant where you work? 6/10/2008 Don’t know what I want, but I know how to…
Author: Jeff Patton
Secrets to Automated Acceptance Tests
In the years that I’ve been involved with agile development, I’ve noticed an ongoing crusade for a holy grail that teams have been striving to reach: fully automated acceptance tests….
Is User Experience Relevant Where You Work?
This post is about how looking at the context your product is targeted for can explain your organization’s support, or lack of support, for user experience concerns. Software development and…
Making Sense Out of Your User Story Backlog
A prioritized user story backlog helps to understand what to do next, but is a difficult tool for understanding what your whole system is intended to do. A user story…
An Uncomfortable Truth About Agile Testing
Summary: From the Editors of StickyMinds.com – One characteristic of agile development is continuous involvement from testers throughout the process. Testers have a hard and busy job. Jeff has finally…
Usage to User Interface
Tutorial: Collaboratively Designing and Testing User Interface From User Stories, User Scenarios, or Use Cases This 3-4 hour tutorial describes a practical approach to translating the goals users would like…
User Story Mapping Presentation
A prioritized user story backlog helps to understand what to do next, but is a difficult tool for understanding what your whole system is intended to do. A user story…
Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It
Why knowing what you want in agile development may be an impediment to getting it. It all started with one of those weird trains of thought that come to you…
Personas, Profiles, Actors, & Roles: Modeling Users to Target Successful Product Design
This 3 hour tutorial simplifies and demystifies commonly used user models such as personas, user profiles, user roles, and actors. You’ll learn how to simply construct each and leverage them…
Kicking Off the Slow Software Movement
Why our rush to build software faster sacrifices quality and treats software like fast food In August 2007, I was lucky enough to be able to edit an issue of…