We stand with Ukraine and our team members from Ukraine.

A Community Of Over 740,000

Become a member
Twitter Linkedin-in Facebook-f
Home ›› Agile and Iterative Process

Agile and Iterative Process

See All Topics
Read these first

Agile and Design Thinking — How Can They Go Well Together?

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Conversational Design, Design, Design Theory
Article by Karri Ojanen
IDEAS IN BRIEF
Agile and Design Thinking — How Can They Go Well Together?
  • The article explores how organizations can merge Agile and Design Thinking to create a more flexible, collaborative, and customer-focused approach to problem-solving.
  • The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporates Design Thinking principles into the Agile continuous exploration cycle, but it also has some key differences.
  • To successfully blend Agile and Design Thinking, organizations must recognize that Design Thinking is also Agile in its iterative, co-creative, and collaborative approach, and applying too strict of a cadence and speed to the process could be counterproductive.
Read Article →
Share
Share:Agile and Design Thinking — How Can They Go Well Together?
5 min read

Designers, Excellence Is Not Accidental

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Business UX Leaders, Design, Personal and Professional Development, Strategy, The rise of design, UX Education

Excellence is deliberate.

Article by Nate Schloesser
IDEAS IN BRIEF
Designers, Excellence Is Not Accidental
  • The author speculates on reaching excellence in design backing the arguments with his own experience of delivering product strategy for Internet and Screen Accountability software Covenant Eyes.
  • Excellence in design is not something that comes to you naturally; it is deliberate and comes with effort.
  • Excellence starts with mastering design skills through learning, making mistakes, and, eventually, making a habit of putting to work everything you’ve learned.
  • In the pursuit of excellence, intelligent execution is an essential step. The author advises that you should always take into account the environment in which the plan is to be implemented. Also, you should have a thorough awareness of the framework and the organization you are working with.
Read Article →
Share
Share:Designers, Excellence Is Not Accidental
6 min read

Chaos, Derrida and Pigeons: Things I Learnt From Dave Snowden

  • Accessibility, Agile and Iterative Process, Behavioral Science, Business UX Leaders, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, UX World Changing Ideas

To hear Dave Snowden talk at Design Thinking Ireland was to be treated to an avalanche of fascinating and deeply interconnected ideas like no other. The talk also seriously overwhelmed my sketchnoting abilities.

Article by David Hall
IDEAS IN BRIEF
Chaos, Derrida and Pigeons: Things I Learnt From Dave Snowden
  • The article covers a talk Dave Snowden gave at Designing Thinking Ireland telling about his developed Cynefin framework — a powerful decision-making framework that attempts to give us tools to absorb uncertainty, create resilience, and thrive in a complex world.
  • The authors unpacks the following ideas:
    • Consciousness is a distributed function
    • Dark chocolate consumption and Nobel laureates
    • Derrida and aporia
    • Distributive ethnography
    • Embracing ambiguity
    • Exaptation
    • Falcon and the pigeon
    • Frozen Two and the adjacent possible
    • Order, complexity, and chaos
    • Sense-making
    • Triopticon
    • Wisdom of Crowds
Read Article →
Share
Share:Chaos, Derrida and Pigeons: Things I Learnt From Dave Snowden
9 min read
Chaos-Derrida-and-pigeons_-things-I-learnt-from-Dave-Snowden

User stories vs use cases: how they stack up

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Project Management, Prototypes, Requirements and Specifications, Research Tools and Software, Rich Internet applications, User Acceptance Testing

Just what are the differences between user stories and use cases? Don’t they have the same goals? But, user stories and use cases are not quite the same.

Article by Patrick Joseph Downs, Justinmind
Share
Share:User stories vs use cases: how they stack up
10 min read

In Conversation with Alfonso de la Nuez

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Business UX Leaders, Business Value and ROI, Design, Design Tools and Software, Enterprise Products, Information Design and Architecture, Internal Company Dynamics, Interviews, Marketing and Brand, Prototypes, Remote Research, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Software as a Service, Technology, The Business of UX, Usability, User Reported Feedback

We talk with UserZoom CEO Alfonso de la Nuez about the importance of user testing, how to recruit panelists, and why research is an inspiration.

Article by Gigi Peccolo
Share
Share:In Conversation with Alfonso de la Nuez
6 min read

Join 740,000 designers, thinkers, and doers.

Become a member

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Check our privacy policy and

Accept policy