Agile UX Research
40mIntermediate2024-11-26
Authors

Amanda Stockwell
President of Stockwell Strategy
Course details
This course explores how the user experience research (UXR) practice fits into agile development approaches so that teams can understand their users and build better products. Join instructor Amanda Stockwell as she outlines the foundational concepts of agile and associated practices like scrum and shares best practices from her experiences of integrating UX research efforts into those systems. Learn tips to assemble the right teams, set up logistics for efficient collaboration, establish a cadence that embraces continuous learning, and more. Along the way, discover best ways to adapt research methods for agile workflows and keep insights flowing in practice. Ideal for UX designers, product managers, scrum masters, and any professional eager to better understand how UXR can fit into agile, this course can help you successfully integrate practices to ensure your teams actively gather the feedback needed to stay truly agile.
Skills covered
Agile Project ManagementUX DesignUser ExperiencePersonaProject ManagementWeb Development
Concepts
Introduction
- The agile development approach
Background
- Agile and scrum overview
- Other frameworks
- Why development and business process matters to UX
Team Preparation
- UX in agile
- Team structures
- Set experimentation cadence
- Account for foundational research
- Logistics of securing research participants
Research Adaption
- Choose a research method
- Set narrow goals and hypotheses
- Balance rigor and speed
- Perform research together
Analyze Research
- Analyze together
- Immediately responding to feedback
- Integrate results
- AI in agile
Conclusion
- Next steps