You can’t solve someone’s problem with code if you don’t understand their problem.
Agile has taken over the software-development world. In recent years, it’s become the most popular software-development methodology. Agile development has a lot of benefits: an incremental approach, the ability to change direction based on customer and stakeholder feedback, short timeframes that keep the teams focused.
I am a firm believer, that to make best use of UX professionals in the development process they should be working with the team in sprint as much as possible. We know that the benefits of collaborative working are increased efficiency and value so although UX designers need to work closely with Product Owners and keep an eye firmly fixed on what’s coming up in the backlog, they should be as available as possible for the current work of the sprint.
Clearly defined user personas, prototyping tools and guerrilla usability testing techniques can be utilised to help UX stay ahead of the development work and ensure the quality of the user experience.
