Summary: <h2>Agile UX Product Design with Yana Carstens and Jeff Patton</h2> <p>Follow us on Twitter! <a href="https://twitter.com/tech_done_right" rel="nofollow">@tech_done_right</a>, and leave us a review on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-done-right/id1195695341?mt=2" rel="nofollow">Apple Podcasts</a>.</p> <h2>Guests</h2> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/jeffpatton" rel="nofollow">Jeff Patton</a>: Author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/User-Story-Mapping-Discover-Product/dp/1491904909" rel="nofollow">User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product</a> and owner of <a href="http://jpattonassociates.com/" rel="nofollow">Jeff Patton & Associates</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/YanaCarstens" rel="nofollow">Yana Carstens</a>: Senior User Experience Designer at <a href="http://www.tablexi.com/" rel="nofollow">TableXI</a>.</p> <h2>Summary</h2> <p>Agile practices help you build software. UX design helps you build the right software. Teams often struggle integrating UX design into agile practice. In this episode, Jeff Patton, author of User Story Mapping, and UX Designer Yana Carstens talk about the importance of bringing UX design together with development and how to bring your team from unconscious competence to conscious competence. </p> <h2>Notes</h2> <p>01:47 - Jeff’s Involvement with Company Product Development </p> <p>03:31 - The History of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development" rel="nofollow">Agile Software Development</a></p> <p>05:37 - The Role and Integration of the UX Designer</p> <p>09:00 - Creating Products Without a Design Process</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBU" rel="nofollow">FUBU</a> </li> </ul> <p>12:21 - Consciousness and Competency</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence" rel="nofollow">The Four Stages of Competence</a> </li> </ul> <p>16:08 - Advice for Newbies Striving to Reach the Competence Level in UX</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/User-Experience-Team-One-Research/dp/1933820187" rel="nofollow">The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide by Leah Buley</a></li> </ul> <p>19:11 - Deciding Design Cadences Within Cycles</p> <p>23:20 - When Designers are Sprinting Ahead of Developers; Lean User Experience</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.axure.com/blog/archie-miller-of-carmax-on-implementing-lean-ux-in-large-organizations/" rel="nofollow">Implementing Lean UX In Large Organizations</a></li> </ul> <p>28:48 - Inceptions and Product Strategy Workshops to Integrate Design Into Agile Development</p> <p>31:16 - Team Development: The Benefits of Hiring Experienced Professionals and Upscaling the People You’ve Got</p> <p>34:38 - UX Practices in the 90's vs 2010's</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.agilealliance.org/agile2017/" rel="nofollow">Agile 2017 Conference</a></li> </ul><p>Special Guests: Jeff Patton and Yana Carstens.</p>
