UXDX Community:Designing for Agile Domains

Designing user experiences for highly technical domains can seem like being in a perpetual state of discomfort. Not only can it be challenging to ramp up and understand the complex domain, but it can also be challenging to get access to users and work with stakeholders who may or may not have previous experience working with designers.

This session will cover what an Empowered Team is, what the individual roles and responsibilities of Engineering, Product, and UX are, and how they can work in partnership to produce the best outcomes, as well as how that might look like in an Agile environment.

I have worked in a few different types and sizes of product organizations, applying agile ways of working from different roles. Starting with strict by-the-book practices of Scrum or SAFe and learning how to adapt them and explain them to the more skeptical minds in the engineering world. As part of my experience, I have created a distilled approach with a strong belief that everyone can understand the foundational concepts that underpin agile methodologies. As an engineering manager with agile coaching background and approach to my work, I use these concepts to help teams find their way and learn how to be agile and not just apply agile methods.