Collaborative UX Design

Today’s software is designed increasingly in cross-functional teams. The members of long-term teams bring a wide variety of skills to product design workshops, where project configuration, progress, obstacles, and the risks of each phase are identified before interim results are gathered and subsequent steps are planned.

In this book, Toni Steimle and Dieter Wallach give you a concise introduction to collaborative UX design. They describe how to select and use cross-disciplinary UX methods, and illustrate how these interlink in a workshop-based scenario. The collaborative approach they demonstrate is based on human-centered development models, design thinking and Lean UX, with strong emphasis on an agile, hypothesis-based approach.

In the course of the book, you will get to know Tim (an experienced UX designer) as he works with a team on a project for optimizing a performance-recording software module. The team goes through a solution-finding process based on a series of UX workshops on scoping, synthesis, ideation, concept, prototyping, validation, and MVP planning.