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Alan Cooper video: "Similarities Between Interaction Designers and Agile Programmers"

by Lane Halley on March 13, 2009

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During the Agile 2008 conference, Amr Elssamadisy interviewed Alan Cooper on the topic "Similarities Between Interaction Designers and Agile Programmers." During their conversation, Alan provides additional context for his talk, "The Wisdom of Experience" and explains why he believes the adoption of Agile methods by developers is a positive development for interaction designers.

Filed under: Agile, Design & engineering

Lane Halley

Principal Designer Lane Halley's career spans the formative years of the interaction design profession. Prior to joining Cooper in 1997, she worked in marketing, technical account management, technical writing and product management roles at SSC, Microsoft, Mindscape and SenSage. While at Cooper, Lane has helped companies ranging from start ups to fortune 100 companies create compelling design solutions for enterprise and consumer applications, websites and devices.


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On Mar 16, 2009, Virginia said:

Brilliant! I want all of my management to watch this. As a single IxD in an organization of 300 programmers, business analysts, QA and project managers, I actually have some hope. Thanks Alan!

 

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