Ui Design Now

First,  Agile

Agile is a rapid software development methodology.

I would summarized it this way :
Determining smalls tasks or goals to be reached in a short amount of time, each goals representing one step toward the final release version.

Then, what about usability in an Agile environment ?

It might sometimes be difficult to work on usability in an everchanging environment.

Here are some tips to keep in mind :

• Do early work: site visits, background research, competitor studies
• Run usability studies on pre-alpha code
• Build a parallel user interface for testing
• Use an effecient technique to communicate usability matters

And the most important one :
Keep the focus on the big picture across multiple releases.

source/inspiration : http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/agile.html

Tagged as Agile, Usability + Categorized as Agile, Usability