Getting the user experience right on Agile projects

Agile methods tend to overlook the role of user experience design. As a result, it is often unclear how to fit user-focused activities into an Agile project, from user research through setting requirements, designing the user interface, and user testing. Hugh Beyer...

Conference Keynote

Karen will deliver the keynote at this important event for usability and design professionals in the rapidly expanding markets in South America.

Open Space Session

The Boston Agile group is hosting an “Open Space,” a day-long mini-seminar. Hugh will be convening a session on how UX designers work within an Agile process, including industry best practices and success (and failure) stories. These sessions tend to be...

Is Analytics the Answer?

It’s been fascinating over the last several years to watch the big hairy technology battle of our age play out—Google versus Apple.  Like Microsoft/Apple a generation ago, this one is also about a clash of ideologies.  Much has been made over the open versus closed...

The Agile 2010 Conference: Agile Grows Up

I’m on my way back from Agile 2010, the main industry conference on Agile methods and tools. As always, I come back with lots of thoughts and insights into the state of Agile development today. If I had to choose one theme for the conference, it would be something...