Presentations & Events
Vancouver TechFest Event: Experience in an Agile World
Burnaby, BC — February 24, 2007
Venue: BCIT (SW5 - 1840) — 3700 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby, BC
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Many organizations are adopting agile software development techniques when developing large-scale websites, web applications and desktop applications. How do you design an exceptional user experience in a project that follows an agile philosophy? How do traditional user-centered design activities, such as detailed up-front IA and UI discovery, fit into the agile development process?
In this session Ben Skelton, Director of User Experience for Habañero Consulting Group will propose one approach for incorporating User Experience design into large-scale agile projects. After the presentation we encourage everyone to join in a moderated discussion of techniques and tools that have worked for them, and those that haven’t.
About the Speaker
Ben Skelton
As Habañero's Director, User Experience, Ben Skelton manages both the user experience practice and team and provides UE leadership for all projects. He has extensive knowledge and experience in corporate visioning and strategy, information and interaction design, user interface design, and usability engineering. An advocate of ‘unselfish’ design, Ben believes that good user interface design is not about the designer, but the person who ultimately interacts with the design: the user. Ben’s primary goal for all projects is to deliver real business value to clients and deepen their relationships with customers.
In addition to client work, Ben teaches a two-day seminar entitled “Designing a Better Web User Experience” for the Software Productivity Centre and has taught students from Accenture, Creo, IBM, ICBC, and Sierra Systems, among others. He is a co-founder of the Vancouver User Experience Group (VanUE) and has presented to numerous groups including the International Internet Marketing Association, COMDEX, and the Calgary Portal User’s Group. In his spare time, Ben is an avid air miles collector, travelling around the world and sampling libations as he goes, and enjoys watching bad movies.