user-centered-development.md

User-Centered Development

Learn how to use User Personas and User Stories to put people at the center of your development process.

Before Class

• Learn about User Personas
  • interaction-design.org
  • Abnux
• Read about User Stories and Acceptance Criteria in Suggested Study

During Class

Begin the Loruki Rebuild deliverable.

Before Break

• 20 min: Q/A and review
• 20 min: Form random groups and study the /development-strategy examples from Chapter 2 together here:
  • How do you write a User Persona?
  • How do you write a User Story?
  • How do you Prioritize a Backlog?
  • How do you write a Development Strategy?
  • How do you follow a Development Strategy?
• 60 min: In your groups try to complete one of the /development-strategy exercises. here
• 20 min: Get back together as a class:
  • each group will quickly present what they worked on
  • full-class discussion

After Break

• 70 min: Form random groups and begin preparing for the week's deliverable.

  Study the Loruki page together:

  • Who is this website for? (User Personas)
  • Why are they visiting it? (User Stories)
  • Which interactions are most meaningful for them? (Prioritized Backlog)

  By the end of class you should try to complete:

  • Repository Setup
  • Project Definition
  • Constraints
  • Communication Plan

  And have started your:

  • User Personas
  • Backlog
  • Prioritized Design

• 20 min: Regroup and have each group give a quick presentation:

  • how far did you make it?
  • what went well?
  • what went less well?
  • any tips to share?

After Class

Study the /development-strategies folder in /2-writing-plans

In your groups, try to complete the Loruki Rebuild deliverable. If you are not able to complete everything that's ok! You should still complete a Retrospective and move your issue to Ready for Review before the next class.