Surviving and thriving as a UX professional in an Agile development organization Excellent presentation on how UX professionals can work in an Agile environment. Thank you Dmitry Nekrasovski.

Two Microsoft employees posted this article about Agile UX a year ago. I really liked the following quote: Agile developers “learn by building” and this tends to make them skeptical of the value of Big Design Up Front. But in more fundamental ways…

Even research firm Forrester dives onto this subject now and publishes a report called Making Agile Customer-Centric. Unfortuntaly such reports cost $499 so I’m going to skip this one for now.

In one of the latest Boxes and Arrows articles User Centered Designer Anthony Colfelt explains which mines you can step on when walking the “minefield” of applying UCD within an Agile project. A brief summary of the mines he describes: Mine 1: An …

In his column at Wired Magazine David Allen paints a picture of how the future could look like in the field of productivity (and creativity!) enhancing software. He envisions intelligent walls and rooms which proactively help you make associations…

Apparently last week there was an actual conference on integrating (UX) design and (Agile) development at the University of Minnesota called Code Freeze 10. There were some interesting speakers like Alan Cooper, writer of About Face 3 on the Inter…

Usability expert W Craig Tomlin shared 7 Usability predictions for 2010 which may not be very controversial but are insightful. Three of them have to do with usability becoming quicker and cheaper and more of a commodity: 1. The cost of conducting…

via slideshare.net Fun presentation using sticky notes from an Information Architect on how agile (here called ‘washing machine’) improved her companies design process.