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User experience designers – struggling with how to share the role of designer with engineers and other members of your agile teams? Trying to find a better way to communicate the findings of your user-centered research and establish the importance design plays in any software product? Wondering how to get your design ahead of development so you can have time for usability testing and iterative design? We’ve got the answer for you – design studio.

In this report we describe our experience with the merger of user centered design (UCD) into agile (team) development practice as manifest in a one day design studio. We will walk through our process from the preliminary design research through the conclusion of the day-long workshop that is the design studio by describing those activities in the context of one project. We will follow by enumerating and explaining the benefits we have observed from taking a studio approach to design.