Agile User Experience Design and Research
59mIntermediate2023-01-30
Authors
Eric Nordquist
UX Professor, Practitioner, and Mentor
Course details
In this course, learn how UX design and research can fit smoothly into agile workflows and frameworks. Instructor Eric Nordquist goes over the fundamentals of agile, the different frameworks used to deliver agile, and reviews some proven strategies for how UX professionals can be successful in an agile environment. Learn: what agile is and how it benefits technical teams; the tenets of agile development; user experience design in an agile environment; user experience research in an agile environment; and agile frameworks like kanban and scrum, and how UX fits within them.
Skills covered
FigmaAgile Project ManagementUX DesignUser ExperienceProjectProject ManagementWeb Development
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Agile for UX teams and projects
- 02 - Understand the course goals and format
1. History and Building Up to Agile - Waterfall and Lean
- 03 - History - Before agile waterfall introduction
- 04 - Key takeaways for waterfall
- 05 - Waterfall - Deep dive
- 06 - Waterfall positives
- 07 - Waterfall negatives
- 08 - Lean - History
- 09 - Lean - Popular terms
- 10 - Lean - Deep dive
2. Origins of Agile
- 11 - Introduction to agile
- 12 - The manifesto for agile software development
3. Agile Frameworks
- 13 - Introduction to the two agile frameworks
- 14 - Scrum - Terminology and building blocks
- 15 - Scrum key players
- 16 - Scrum key touch points
- 17 - An introduction to kanban
- 18 - The kanban process
- 19 - Pain points for UX teams using agile frameworks
4. Solutions
- 20 - Workshops
- 21 - Sprint N-1
- 22 - Dual-track agile
Conclusion
- 23 - Next steps