From User Story to User Interface

Jeff Patton (ThoughtWorks)

Tutorials · Customer

Monday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West B

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You've chosen to take an Agile approach to development. You've faithfully written down what users would like as a set of user stories. You've prioritized them and now it's time for developers to estimate how long it will take to build. But, they've got questions on exactly what the user interface looks like and how it behaves. As a matter of fact, so do you.

You don't have the luxury of halting everything for a few days or weeks while you locate a specialist to do the user interface design work. You've tried to draw a few pictures on the whiteboard, but you're not confident they really solve the problem. How can you quickly and predictably move from this simple user story to a user interface you feel confident in? This tutorial will introduce a practical approach to translating the goals users would like to achieve and the tasks they wish to accomplish into user interface designs that effectively support those goals and tasks.

As a participant you will learn how a User Centered Design practitioner moves quickly from user task to user interface. You'll learn through practice by taking a set of user stories and transforming them into more tangible actions user might take in the UI, then collaboratively building and testing paper prototypes of your proposed user interface. In addition to paper prototyping skills and basic usability testing skills, participants will learn essential visual design skills that can help improve the appeal of your user interface.