Perspectives

PERSPECTIVES is a forum where I write about my professional experiences, opinions and interests. Most everything here is in some way connected to the broad and ever evolving realms of Design and Product Development.

Here I solidify and strengthen my own experiences and learnings, writing and offering commentary fully unique and opinionated...These are my perspectives. I hope that as I experience, learn and write, I can also inspire you in some way...and if nothing else, at least stimulate interesting conversation.

Hey man, it's like, a blog.

March 19, 2013

User Research for Agile Teams: Agile Experience Design Meetup, Pivotal Labs – 03/18/13

March 19, 2013/ adam good

Last night, the NYC Agile Experience Design Meetup hosted a panel with 3 companies speaking on how they incorporate UX in an agile environment. I found AppNexus’ talk particularly interesting in that they brought up the point that there seems to not be a good standard to this point for incorporating research in an agile (scrum) setting. They believe that it is the designer’s role to incorporate the research into scrum (makes sense) and they typically follow a process broken up into four distinct phases:

January 31, 2013

Progress Report: Digital Design Process

January 31, 2013/ adam good

I thought it wise to begin my knowledge pursuit in the digital design end of the design/product development spectrum. As I networked and met people involved with digital and independently researched I picked up on areas that seemed to be common themes to target.

My thinking began as such:

I am looking to work in digital.
More specifically, I’d like to first contribute as a project manager working with teams creating a digital product.

So I began to ask myself (and other people) what it takes to be a successful PM in the digital world. What hard knowledge should I familiarize myself with?