Agile Design Camp

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A couple of months ago, while I was working at the co-working space Betahaus, I met and spoke with Wolfgang Wopperer, one of the co-founders of mindmatters. There was definitely an affinity for one another as we later met for lunch and decided that we should do something together. A couple weeks later he DM’ed me about speaking at a design camp for agile thinking he was co-organizing.

So, what is agile design? It’s taking the agile software development and applying it to the process of design. But more so, it’s about building on a collaborative level with multi-disciplinary teams where the final outcome is not necessarily set in stone. It’s about embodying a deep empathy for one another and working in parallel instead of a waterfall process.

Agile thinking is what I believe we did in the early days of Fork Unstable Media. We were a lean multi-disciplinary team constantly building and iterating on ideas we had made real. It was this process that I now identify with being agile and also why I think when a team is small, say less than 10 people, agile is in their DNA as communication is the shortest and exchange the most direct.

Needless to say, I promptly agreed to Wolfgang’s original query and the rest was a weekend filled with discussion, building and great folk.