Agile Design at Verys

Every day at Verys is another exciting challenge of juggling multiple projects for Fortune 500 customers, internal Products, and furthering the company's vision of what it means to create quality products. Versatility has proven to be the greatest skillset to maintain the pace in this ever-changing landscape from mature companies with massive products to small startups that are still defining a vision.

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Enterprise Design at Startup Speed

My first project at Verys was to help the massive company First American with modernizing their software. This meant researching and communicating with a dozen product owners to uncover the job that had to be done by each user, and then designing a higher quality experience. Every feature had to be a mix of old and new – not too novel to disorient users from a their new platform, but still working towards a more modern experience that could scale as large as this company can dream.

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Guiding the Vision of a Young Product

As my efforts were recognized I joined the team who was creating a product to run the business with hopes of someday launching a sellable SaaS product. This flipped the tables from designing at scale to designing for a startup. Everything became about, "what should we do? where should we go?" instead of "how do we manage everything we already have?".

Being part of an agile team with expertise in business and engineering really makes you understand why agile is the way to go. Design teaches you iteration, and agile allows you to do it with a team. Everyone designs the product together, builds it together, and plots the future course together.

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That's all for now as the Verys journey continues...

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