More and more organisations realise the importance of enlisting user experience professionals early in the product lifecycle to improve usability and user satisfaction. Phil Barrett, a director at Flow Interactive, will provide us with valuable insights into user experience design. More specifically, he will discuss how to combine agile development and user-centred design to produce better products.

Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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Venue

Bandwidth Barn
125 Buitengracht Street
Cape Town

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Agenda

18:15 Welcoming and Introduction
   Jan Pool
18:20 Climbing the right mountain one bite at a time - Combining Agile and User-Centred Design to deliver great user experiences
   Phil Barrett
19:20 Closing and Thanks
   Jan Pool
19:25 Networking & Discussion

Abstract

Climbing the right mountain one bite at a time - Combining Agile and User-Centred Design to deliver great user experiences

The most reliable way to achieve usability and deliver the right user experience is with user-centred design (UCD). It’s a collection of tools and techniques that helps digital project teams stay focused on what customers need all the way through the design process. You can fit UCD into a agile software development project and get pretty much all the benefits of both. The trick is to understand the objectives and thinking styles of both approaches, and emphasise the right one at the right time in the project lifecycle.

Speaker Profile

Phil Barrett

Phil is a director of Flow Interactive, a user experience design, research and strategy consultancy based in London and Cape Town.

He’s been consulting in user experience since 1999. He’s designed all sorts of user experiences and worked with hundreds of users in the process. He’s worked with plenty of different client organisations too – including Vodafone, Standard Life and The BBC in the UK, and MXit, DSTV and Mix Telematics in South Africa.