UXcamp - Day1: Power of agile UX (Petr Dousa)

The first session I attended at the Uxcamp in Berlin was a session by Petr Dousa about "Power of agile UX". He explained how he's working and focused on 3 major topics:

• Design Workshops
• Agile Usability Testing
• Feedback

Rule of UX in Agile: Do just enough ... of Sketching, Mockups...

Design Workshop: with Users, Developers, Tester, Product Managers and User Experience
2 hours workshop - everybodyis sketching. (Explain the goal and background, Sketch 6 ideas, Present + discuss, Sketch whole solution, Present + discuss, Sketch one consesus solution)

• It's fast
• Pick the best idea (Good idea are coming from anybody!)
• Mutual understanding

Agile Usability Testing: 3 participants - 3 tests in the morning, Eval & Pizza afterwards, Afternoon: Bugfixing

• Involve the team!: Good ideas from everybody, buy-in (this is our product), Personal experience that users are different
• Test evaluation: Every observer write down 3 major problems, write on sticky notes, First person sorts, Collision - Discussion , Pick 3 top problems, Start fixing now.
• Repeat it each month!

Feedback

• Including mockups in real application - to show how it could work.
• Problems: It's uncomfortable / Devs: "I use it this way"
• Solutions: Meet the users!, 70% communication and 30% design

The slides of his presentation provided Petr on Slideshare.