“The Challenge of Agile Development: Avoiding Half-Baked Design“ from the Web 2.0 Expo

However you want to frame it, agile development processes are changing the way we make websites. As a designer I’ve been really influenced by the developers on our team, and I learn a lot from them everyday. Today at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo I got to share some of that learning along with Alex Chaffee of Pivotal Labs. We stressed the idea that design is a group effort more than ever before, and that design is about finding the problem, not the solution.

You can also see the slides here at SlideShare. Let me know what you think! And here’s a hat tip to Leisa who seems to have started the washing machine metaphor.

-Leslie

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  1. Gema Terrones
    Posted April 19, 2007 at 10:41 am | Permalink

    Leslie, this was one of my favorite sessions at the expo! This was very timely, helpful and immediately applicable to say the least. Thanks for posting the slides. I am a designer, or “hybrid designer” and I’ll be doing my best to re-present this to my team and start applying it. Any chance of a podcast?

  2. ted
    Posted April 27, 2007 at 12:51 pm | Permalink

    I’m so sad I missed it :(

    @Gema – I found a podcast here

    Cheers,
    Ted

  3. leslie
    Posted April 27, 2007 at 2:29 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Ted for posting that!
    @Gema – I’d love to hear how the ideas go over with your team, ping me at Leslie at getsatisfaction.com if you get a chance. :)

    -L

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