[Sigia-l] How the design process fits into the agile methodology, WAS Pricing the Design Process

[James Melzer]

Austin Govella posted a couple weeks ago on agile and design.
http://thinkingandmaking.com/lightpress/entries/232

Austin - "Agile development won't give you better design. Design
models things to be made. Development makes things you've modeled.
Agile development methods promise better model-making, but don't
promise better models. Agile development can actually devastate
design."

~ James


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On 2/14/07, Adrian Howard <adrianh at quietstars.com> wrote:
>
> > Jamie said:
> > With agile it's the opposite. It's very light on deliverables, the
> > focus switching to building a usable product at the end of each
> > iteration. It's very user-centred in its approach as you can build
> > user testing cycles into each iteration to feed into requirements for
> > the next.
> >
> > Probably a subject for a separate thread (if there hasn't already been
> > one) is how the design process fits into the agile methodology - which
> > has some big challenges. I'd be interested to hear other people's
> > experiences with this.
> > END
> [snip]
>
> There's a nice discussion on this very topic on the IxDA list at the
> moment.
>
> <http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/discuss-
> interactiondesigners.com/2007-February/014654.html>
>
> If you're interested in the topic I'd recommend you join the agile-
> usability list <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-usability/>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrian
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