Comments on: Agile doesn’t do good UI does it? http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/06/22/agile-doesn%e2%80%99t-do-good-ui-does-it/ For more than a decade Marc has been a passionate advocate of placing the customer at the heart of business, working with clients in finance, retail, government and entertainment sectors, helping them craft compelling cross channel customer experiences. Marc champions lean and agile approaches for making customer driven innovation happen. He brings design thinking and creativity to clients, engaging across the organisation with a focus on delivery as well as ideas. He is currently writing a book on Agile Experience Design to be published this Autumn. Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:33:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Aaron Smith http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/06/22/agile-doesn%e2%80%99t-do-good-ui-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-38804 Aaron Smith Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:47:34 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/?p=56#comment-38804 I definitely agree with the thesis that waterfall projects generally have better ui despite their other problems, and that agile projects can have lousy, organically grown, inconsistent design. However, the main difference is that UI Designers were involved in the former but not the latter. I definitely think that there is an important place for design in agile, and it actually makes the project more agile by iterating up front with the design much more quickly than after development is knee-deep in code and everyone is doing something different. I recently wrote an article on the case for the ui designer on agile projects that you may find interesting: http://tinyurl.com/ypn7sz. It is located on SmartAgile.com I definitely agree with the thesis that waterfall projects generally have better ui despite their other problems, and that agile projects can have lousy, organically grown, inconsistent design. However, the main difference is that UI Designers were involved in the former but not the latter. I definitely think that there is an important place for design in agile, and it actually makes the project more agile by iterating up front with the design much more quickly than after development is knee-deep in code and everyone is doing something different. I recently wrote an article on the case for the ui designer on agile projects that you may find interesting: http://tinyurl.com/ypn7sz. It is located on SmartAgile.com

]]> By: Jason Yip http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/06/22/agile-doesn%e2%80%99t-do-good-ui-does-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1402 Jason Yip Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:23:43 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/?p=56#comment-1402 I'd be looking at which team has more awareness and skills in HCI and interaction design more than whether they're using a waterfall or Agile model. I'm also wary about emphasising emotional engagement too much over task efficiency. I’d be looking at which team has more awareness and skills in HCI and interaction design more than whether they’re using a waterfall or Agile model.

I’m also wary about emphasising emotional engagement too much over task efficiency.

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