User Centred Design (UCD) and Agile Development are two of the most exciting and productive Methods to achieve high quality appication both desired by the customers and loved by the users. UCD and Agile Development are though often said to be impossible to combine and that despite their great advantages any attempt would most certainly lead to disaster. This talk picks up the main points of both methods, shows the key issues and tries to offer a pragmatic approach on how to successfully combine User Centered Design and Agile Development.

Any created product or service contains many different elements of design - the term design is not limited to the aesthetic aspect: Whenever anything is planned and/or implemented by a team Collaborative Design is inevitably an integral part of the process. This talk explores the dynamics of Collaborative Design and defines successful Collaborative Design and points to important elements on the way to achieve that.

An Overview on the Process of creating User Experience from Research to Implementation.

This talk is about the typical indicators of projects that surpass a certain volume. Key alements are the definition of Scope and the elements of controlling, the essential stages of a large project and how to keep the process agile

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Embracing Collaborative Design: Acceptance of UX in the Development process Ever since UX Design got involved with the development of websites UX experts had a hard time getting the acceptance they deserve. These slides point out the process of collaborative design that emerges in buiding sites, points at the reasons for low acceptance and shows ways to raise it.

So far designers were limited to the fonts available on the user's machines. All of a sudden New possibilities seem to open up.

These slides are a brief introduction of the main principles of User Interaction Design. I use them as a starting point when training juniors. They are largely based on the Book "About Face" by Alan Cooper et al.

This talk points out social patterns based on gender, with a special focus on technology

This presentation covers an introduction to the principles of Collaborative Design. It was presented at the phpDay2009 in Verona, the focus therefore is web-development. The ideas presented though apply to any area of work where artefacts are created in teams. The original abstract: Any application contains many different elements of design, from application architecture to the display on the screen. Whenever an application is planned and/or implemented by a team Collaborative Design is inevitably an integral part of the process. This session explores the dynamics of Collaborative Design and the risks and chances it poses.