AGILE FUTURES:

Day01. Wednesday, July 07, 19:30-20:00 EDT

Agile product designers often leverage emergent design, incrementally designing small pieces of a product, feature-by-feature, but are challenged when creating flexible visions of the future that still allow for learning.

This talk explores how to combine speculative design methods for designing preferable futures with emergent design methods for ongoing learning, and provides practical tips for creating a cycle of ongoing discovery and futures exploration using the build, test, and learn cycle of agile product development.

Matt Dobson is a designer and technologist living in and working from Louisville, Kentucky. He is proud to be part of the team at 18F working to improve the user experience of the government. Prior to joining 18F, he was a product designer at Humana's Digital Experience Center, a technology incubator transforming Humana into a human-centered, tech-driven company. In his free time, he acts as the local leader for Louisville's IxDA chapter and has recently started a Louisville Design Futures Meetup. In the increasingly distant past, he was an art director, published a magazine, and produced a late-night variety show at a Tony Award winning theatre.