Follow-up from "Agile UX Toolkit" tutorial at UPA 2011

by Desirée Sy and John Schrag

We would like to thank the attendees of our one-day tutorial at the Usability Professionals’ Association 2011 conference, “Agile UX Toolkit,” for their energy, participation, and terrific questions.

As mentioned during the tutorial, here are a collected set of references mentioned during the tutorial, beginning with the refreshed series of slides:

• Slides from "Agile UX Toolkit"
  Desirée Sy and John Schrag, UPA 2011.
• “Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-Centered Design”
  Desirée Sy, JUS, May 2007. http://tiny.cc/agileUCD [OR link: Sy_agile-ucd.pdf]
• “Case Study of Customer Input For a Successful Product”
  Lynn Miller. Agile 2005.  http://tinyurl.com/4xx8zle
• Agile manifesto
  http://agilemanifesto.org/
• “Interaction Designers and Agile Development: A Partnership”
  Lynn Miller. UPA 2006.  [link: Miller_AgileAndID_partnership.pdf]
• “Using Formative Usability Testing as a Fast UI Design Tool”
  John Schrag. UPA 2006 [link: Schrag_FormativeTesting.pdf]
• “Escaping the Design Traps of Creeping Featurism”
  Dong-Seok Lee, David Woods, Daniel Kidwell, UPA 2006.
• “Using the RITE method to improve products; a definition and a case study”
  Michael C. Medlock, Dennis Wixon, Mark Terrano, Ramon L. Romero, Bill Fulton. http://www.lutin-userlab.fr/gamelab/IMG/doc/Medlock-RITE.doc
• More on confidence levels at:
  http://www.measuringusability.com/wald.htm
• “Formative usability investigations for  open-ended tasks”
  Desirée Sy. UPA 2006 [link: Sy_OpenEnded_usability_investigations.pdf]
• “Usability Testing with User Proxies: When is ‘Close’ Close Enough?”
  Desirée Sy. DUX blog.
• Slides from "Big Picture Design without Big Design Up Front"
  Desirée Sy. Agile Roots 2010.

 

Comments

[Jill Christ]

Desiree and John, thank you so much for these great resources. Just joined my first scrum team, and would like to work in parallel to the developers, work ahead of the sprint, etc. I'm curious, do you recommend accounting for research during a sprint? Is it appropriate to estimate work that needs to be done during each iteration for usability testing? Or does that happen outside the sprint?

Thanks so much!

Jill