A Tale of Two Conferences

I’ve attended two conferences in the last three weeks—Jared Spool’s UX Immersions conference, and CHI 2012, the primary computer-human interaction conference. UX Immersions was the smaller conference, focusing this year on the Agile/UX interface and on design for...

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The Limits of Iterative Development

One of the ongoing questions in Agile development is whether and how much up-front design needs to be done. Many practitioners have cited the need for some high-level design, but the most extreme of Agile purists say none at all. These folks sometimes cite evolution...