Last week I attended Sean Van Tyne’s UX Boot Camp for Agile Development in Santa Monica, California. Besides bringing a wealth of UX information, Sean was able to convey the importance of UX’s role in a technology corporation. Added to the mix was UX’s place in today’s Agile world, plus a bunch of hands-on labs where students could put their UX skills to the test.
My takeaways:
- 70% of projects fail due to lack of user experience
- Customers are having an experience with your products regardless of whether you’re consciously managing them
- Balanced scorecards are a way to put specific measurements to a company’s vision and strategy and speak in a language that top management understands
- There’s UX at each stage in the product lifecycle (user research, iterative design, usability evaluation)
- Lean UX cycle: Learn, Build, Measure
- UX fits into Agile at all levels: Portfolio, Program and Team
- the user story is where UX really meets Agile
- Design Sprints take Design Thinking and compress it all into 1 week
All in all a fantastic boot camp. Thanks for giving me a great user experience Sean!
It was interesting for me to learn that “70% of projects fail due to lack of user experience”.
Thank you for this post, Daniel.