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You mastered software development with Agile and now possess the knowhow to deliver high quality software quickly. Your next concern is what to build, not how to build it. There is an art to designing products. Customer iteration is a start but not necessarily the only approach you should use. This talk introduces Software Product Design, the art of applying industrial product design approaches to creating software. No sales pitch at this session. We’re talking product innovation and creativity.

Not everyone is lucky enough to work at one of the top twenty innovative companies. The tendency in our world is to go towards short-term solutions that guarantee mediocrity but get the job done. This experience report tells the story of one software product team that delivered three products. As the team embarked on each new product we realized that pressures from schedule, feature sets, recruiting, and cost were going to be a part of the challenge. But we learned that despite all of the pressures we could inject innovation.

Paper Prototyping Mistakes and oversights during the design and development phases can be costly, if not detrimental to a business. Paper prototyping is an excellent, low-cost method to catch these mistakes and correct them before development begins.

This highly detailed, practical, and hands on workshop will provide a framework for creating and testing paper prototypes. Here’s a brief on what we’ll cover:

• bust the common myths
• tools we use for paper prototyping
• show some working examples (yes, I did say working and I do mean interactive prototype models)

How can user experience design (UED) practices be leveraged in Agile development to improve product usability?