I have been interested in agile process for a while, especial it’s use with UX techniques.
The other day I ran into a myth that there aren’t many User Experience Design people with skills that can work on agile teams.
It seems UX people aren’t very flexible.
This I find almost laughable, in fact most UX professionals I have found are extremely flexible, often changing tack or techniques as required, at a moments notice. Maybe we are too flexible.
The core of any agile process really is to have a role less team that can specialists with generalised skills.
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There seems to be this idea of late promoting that all you need to design a user experience is a single developmental / design platform. As if this platform is all that is required, the UX nirvana, the ulitmate UX tool.
This is a little like saying that your experience with a cup of coffee is directly reliant on the brand coffee making equipment and tools that where used to brew the cup. With no consideration to given to the farmer, buyer, roaster, and the barista and the like.
To often we see focus groups being used as the core evaluation and research tool within a web design project. Why!?
Focus groups are in the main used to evaluate and get recommendations from customers on the proof of concepts or prototypes. They have a strength in gathering people’s judgements, emotions and possible interactive scenarios from the group as a whole.
If you don’t know I have no love for focus groups, I have yet to see them produce any results that have not been tainted or saturated in biases. To the extent that they were just unusable. With the research or evaluation having to be conducted by some other technique later on in the project. Often at an extra expense.
