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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

We then reviewed them to see that the answer summaries made sense. Builds collaboration and teamwork: Design thinking involves bringing together people from different disciplines and backgrounds to work on a problem together. This can foster collaboration and teamwork within the organization.

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An Answer to the Pains of Integrating Agile and UX

Boxes and Arrows

It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. The answer situates itself within the Lean approach to product development.

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2 Super Smart Ways to Catalyze Innovative Success

BrainZooming

These trends, as one industry insider put it, “burn really bright and really short,” necessitating abbreviating product development cycles from several years to months, or even weeks. Let’s review two of critical success factors toy manufacturers are embracing that are of value, if your brand also wants to speed up its innovation pace.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. Work closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain points, develop user profiles, and create task lists.

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5 Tips for Adding Value to Agile Design

InnovationTraining.org

Expand online clothing offerings, streamline the sales funnel, and clearly present all costs to customers are useful goals because they provide direction. They don’t tell the team how to design, but they serve as virtual guardrails to prevent the project from careening off the road. It was created for software developers.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

I reached out to seventy colleagues and received detailed responses from twenty UX professionals (including interaction designers, user researchers, and visual designers) who were actively supporting Scrum development teams. “One of my teams has a lot of ideas and contributes a lot to the UX of the product. .

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Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design

Boxes and Arrows

These are blunt assessments of unfortunate team member attitudes, but we were surprised how often we found them to be present. Also fairly common were very small teams where the same person performed multiple roles. All team members should be prepared to make real-time decisions in the collaborative design session.

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