The Transformation Blog

Virtually all Agile developments project will eventually meet the user experience design process. It's inevitable. Unless you're working on something that will run unseen by anyone -- some middleware, perhaps, or an application that integrates data flow between two existing systems -- someone has to interact with the software being designed and built. Even the most compelling UX design will literally do nothing without

Over the last year Gear Stream’s larger clients have increasingly sought to learn and apply methods to business and software innovation that are more commonly found in scrappy, modern, software start-ups.  The latest trend emerging from the software start-up community is LeanUX.  In this and future articles I’ll be exploring the key concepts behind LeanUX and their potential application to those doing software and innovation work in larger companies.

Two of the most profound trends over the past 10 years driving software innovation are Agile software development and Human centered design (often known as UX in software circles), yet these trends have often moved independent of one another, or worse, been at odds.  First, let’s do a quick review of what we mean by UX and Agile: