SESSIONS

Sergey SoloviovThursday 20 November 2014

Prototyping Your Workflow

Urge to try new things

How do I transition without damaging

what I have?

Teams adopt new methods because there's proof they work

– Experimentators

“If we mess this up, we’re still okay”

Waterfall → Agile• Agile method is well defined • And widely talked about • Yet adoption often leads to complications

Pure methods work in the ideal world

Find the right mix that works for your team …and your project

E.g.: Hard to develop in parallel with creative exploration

1

Teams have to be ready to drive themselves

Continuous effort to motivate, train and encourage every team member

E.g.: Encouraging team to speak up in stand-ups

2

Pain of growth underestimated

Keep the impact of changes down

E.g.: Teams giving up half way through

3

Sergey in 2007☺

Better idea↓

• Change one thing at a time

• Learn techniques first, then change the approach

• Prototype your workflow via making hypothesis and testing them

Why this is better↓

• Less pressure, greater chances for success

• Time and energy to educate the team

• Gradually increase synergy

• Manage clients easier: trustful client will support experimentation

Build pattern library retrospectively ↓

Start designing patterns

Team will learn:

• what constitutes a pattern

• how granular they should be

• how to deal with patterns of patterns

• platform to use

• how to rationalise patterns and avoid duplicates

• a standard set for 80% of projects

A

Usability testing in a waterfall project↓

Rely on iterative testing in your design process

Team will learn:

• must-have vs nice-to-have for quality findings

• who's better at planning and who's better at execution

• how findings impact the solution

2B

Interactive prototype alongside the designs ↓

Try designing in a browser

Team will learn:

• tech framework to use

• design re-usable modules that fit everywhere

• build modules that scale to accommodate content

• see themes, modules and navigation paradigms as different dimensions of design

3C

See also

• “Prototype Your Workflow” on ALAalistapart.com/article/prototyping-your-workflow

• Lean UX (available in the Library of Great Things™)

THANK YOU!