Agile User Experience Projects (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

Agile UX is Good, But Can Get Better

This year, we asked study participants how extensively UX was integrated into their projects and how satisfied they were working on projects with a particular development methodology. They indicated their answers on a 1–5 scale, with 5 indicating the highest level of integration or satisfaction:

Project Methodology	Integration of User Experience	Satisfaction with the Method
Waterfall	2.5	2.9
Agile	3.1	3.7
Iterative	3.2	3.8

Clearly, Agile is considerably better than the old Waterfall method.

Even good old Jakob Nielsen has done research about the combination of UX and Agile. This is becoming mainstream quickly!
According to their study the team members (ux people and developers) were very satisfied with the results:: both the level of integration of UX into the process as the satisfaction with the Agile method were very high compared to the Waterfall method.