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Designers Should Adopt Sustainable Pace
deLUX Austin, 2013
Jonathan Berger, Pivotal Labs
Hi!
I'm @jonathanpberger
My background is in
- philosophy and then
- design and now
- development
I read and write code every day to build products and practice at @pivotallabs
Once upon a time...
Software development had problems
- Sclerosis around processes and tools,
- Compulsive (CYA) documentation,
- Endless negotiation about targets and deliverables,
- A fixation on following an old plan in a new situation.
Hey designers, does this
Sound familiar?
(Let's see that again)
- Sclerosis around processes and tools,
- Compulsive (CYA) documentation,
- Endless negotiation about targets and deliverables,
- A fixation on following an old plan in a new situation.
What happened?
Agile happened.
- Individuals & interactions over processes & tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
Software development has been revolutionized by Agile practices
BUT
designers struggle to adapt the same techniques
TL;DR
- Designers will benefit from adopting Agile techniques,
- We should start with Sustainable Pace,
- This is a cultural shift we'll need to advocate for.
Why Now?
- The Lean UX book is out!
- We're starting to codify some of these techniques!
- Now is an opportune time to review the intersection of Agile and Design
Origin Story
I started as
a self-taught designer
I worked on Spot.Us and
found Agile and fell in love.
I wanted to bring Agile to design.
I found Pivotal, and
they needed an Agile designer
Sweet!
Now Pivotal is building
a Product and Design practice
Top 3 areas for improvement:
- Acceptance Criteria-delimited design stories
- Meaningful estimation of work for design
- A culture that values Sustainable Pace
- (How can we keep doing it?)
Sustainable pace
Agile processes promote sustainable development.
The sponsors, developers, and users should be able
to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
What does it mean to maintain a constant pace indefinitely in design?
- A healthy, human practice (TimeOut, ping pong, 40-hour weeks)
rock stars collaborative practices- Build and share a better toolkit (a lot of this work is already being done by the Lean UX movement)
Why Sustainable Pace First?
Area of greatest risk
- It requires a shift in the traditional design fixed-bid billing model
Why Sustainable Pace First?
- It's the most in our control,
- It's the foundation upon which we can build these other things,
- Designers deserve to be happy!
It'll be an uphill battle
- But it's only a messaging problem (not a product problem).
What next?
- We have to spread the word,
- argue about it,
- argue for it.