Extreme Programming vs Interaction Design

Kent Beck is known as the father of "extreme programming," a process created to help developers design and build software that effectively meets user expectations. Alan Cooper is the prime proponent of interaction design, a process with similar goals but different methodology. We brought these two visionaries together to compare philosophies, looking for points of consensus—and points of irreconcilable difference.

Beck v Cooper on Fawcette.com

Beck says: To me, the shining city on the hill is to create a process that uses XP engineering and the story writing out of interaction design. This could create something that's really far more effective than either of those two things in isolation.

This end is going to be my primary objective for the coming 6 months. I'll be going with some others from The Corporation to the ForUSE conference, where we hope to hear more on how we get to this shining city. In true Rapid Application Developent style We'll probably end up do trial and error, hacking about with our process until it feels right. Will be reporting lots more on progress as it happens.