5

Workshop CONFERENCE: XP Universe UI Design as Part of an Agile Process by Mike Kuniavsky & William Pietri Wednesday, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm in Herald

Summary

This workshop UI designers and agile developers together to discuss issues and share experiences. To focus and stimulate the discussion, we plan to devote most of the time to iteratively designing a user interface for a sample project, chorewheel.com.

Goals

The goal is not only to produce something that will work from a technical standpoint and have a good user experience, but--more importantly--to use it as an opportunity to rapidly develop the processes by which designers and programmers can communicate and collaborate.

Duration
This is a half-day workshop.

Audience

In selecting attendees, we will seek a mix of researchers and practitioners, as well as encouraging participation from both UI designers and developers. As relatively few UI designers have attended XPAU in the past, we will make special effort to reach out to the UI design community. We will encourage participants to submit a brief position paper, and will favor attendees who submit them. However, we hope to include some non-expert participants, as their perspective is valuable, especially when discussing adoption. Attendance is strictly limited to 20 participants.

Content Outline

• Introduction
• Explanation of sample project: chorewheel.com
• Collaborative design of sample UI
• Collaborative creation of iterative UI schedule
• Group discussion of best practices and recomendations
• Conclusion

Presenter Resumes

Mike Kuniavsky is a founding partner of Adaptive Path, a San Francisco-based user experience consulting company. He is the author of "Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research" (ISBN: 1558609237) and has been designing user interfaces for commercial software and Web products since 1991. His clients include Wired Digital, National Public Radio, Crayola, CTB/McGraw-Hill, Scient, PacBell, Overture Services, Sony and id Software.

William Pietri is a consultant, author, and software developer. He has both used and consulted on agile development methods since 2000. His clients range from large organizations, including Bank of America, eBay, and the State of Michigan, to small internet startups, including Bianca.com, 4Charity.com, and Shopping.com.