Attending day two of the UIE. Spent the morning in Adaptive Path/ Luke Wroblewski. Both were excellent speakers. A little high level for my taste but overall pretty good stuff. They both provided good support for making a case for design in an organization.

Jared Spool was entertaining as always. I was a bit disappointed with the recycled content.

Jeff Patton’s talk on Agile and UCD was excellent. It’s what I’ve suspected for a while which is; design, iterate, design iterate is better than design and throw over the wall. The challenges for designers is greater than developers since they need to live in the past, the now and the future to do their work effectively. Jeff provided 12 best practices for UX designers to adopt to help transition themselves into an Agile development methodology.