What is Agile UX?
Agile UX is an approach that combines both Agile software development and UX practice. The Agile design methodology places a strong emphasis on flexibility and reactivity and favors individual contributions and collaboration over the process. As the development process moves forward, it is aimed to make the process user-centric and attentive to input and feedback while avoiding being mired in formality or bureaucracy if possibilities to innovate and advance arise. The addition of some Agile UX principles has given a new shape to the whole “Agile Development” process.
Agile has always encouraged collaboration, chunking tasks, building and then testing to incorporate feedback quickly.
Agile follows the process that includes the following steps:
- Plan
- Design
- Code
- Test
- Review
Core Principles of Agile UX:
- Real-Executable timelines
- Integrating design at every step
- Adaptive & Robust Designs
- Effective communication and collaboration
- Continuous Testing
Agile UX vs Lean UX: What’s the Difference
There has been confusion among most people about picking an approach from “Agile” and “Lean”. Especially when it comes to UX practitioners to adapt with either of these approaches. It is seen that Agile was initially just used for development and later UX has been added to the agile process, this makes the adaptation a bit tricky for the companies and sometimes it is just for the sake of it. To pick the best approach that suits your individual, team, and organizational level goals it is good to know about each of these approaches, their similarities, and differences to come to a better decision.
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