Design Iteration

In This Course, You'll

• Get excited to become the designer who can work within the messy reality of agile and keep users at the heart of what you and your team build. On paper, agile brings everyone together in short cycles to move faster and make smarter decisions about what to build and when. In practice, every team works differently, and designers are often left out. Decisions are made before the work reaches you, research is cut, and you have no time to bring the essential user perspective to the sprint. This course teaches you how to adapt your design and research to whatever version of agile your team uses, built on research with hundreds of real teams at startups, agencies, big companies, and even governments. You'll be able to work in the gap between agile theory and reality. And as AI makes each sprint move even faster, the risk is that teams stop asking whether they're actually building the right thing for the right people. This course helps you keep that question part of the conversation without sacrificing momentum.

• Make yourself invaluable by keeping the focus on the user without slowing your team down. Instead of waiting for a dedicated research phase that may never happen, you'll apply continuous discovery to learn from users in every sprint. When you design from the outside in, engineers can start building while details are being finalized, so you don't become a bottleneck. You'll use design slicing and minimum viable products (MVPs) to help your team release something small enough to learn from without shipping something broken, and acceptance criteria to get everyone aligned on what "done" means before anyone writes a line of code. With tools like Now/Next/Later lean roadmaps, you'll be able to steer the conversation toward what problems are worth solving and in what order. The result is less wasted work, fewer miscommunications, and a real say in what your team builds and why.

• Gain confidence and credibility with the ability to spot what's broken on your team and the tools to fix it. This course teaches you to recognize the most common agile anti-patterns, like AgileFall, feature factories, design as a service organization, feeding the beast, and complete chaos, so you can name what's not working and take action. With downloadable templates like an agile glossary and a roadmap framework, you'll put your skills to work right away. Whether you're switching teams, want to step into a more senior role, or just want more influence over what you help build, you'll know how to do great human-centered design, no matter how your team runs agile.

Learn From Industry Leaders

Master complex skills with proven best practices and toolkits directly from industry leaders. Meet your experts for this course:

• Laura Klein: Product Management Expert, Principal at Users Know, and author of "Build Better Products" and "UX for Lean Startups."

• Teresa Torres: Product Discovery Coach at Product Talk, speaker, and author of "Continuous Discovery Habits."

• Adam Thomas: Product Management Expert who has worked with top companies like Google, BP, and SmartRecruiters.