# The Design Process and Agile Development: Part 2 -- Collaborative Activities

DevFeed: [The Design Process and Agile Development: Part 2 -- Collaborative Activities](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-design-process-and-agile-development-part-2-collaborative-activities-33282.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://8thlight.com/insights/the-design-process-and-agile-development-part-2-collaborative-activities>)

Author: Daisy Mølving

Published: 2026-01-16T06:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [8th Light Insights](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/8th-light-insights.md>)

Topics: [Agile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agile.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [agile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agile.md>), [continuous-integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/continuous-integration.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [experiential-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiential-design.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how UX designers, product owners, and software developers can collaborate during an agile design process. It focuses on continuous discovery through stakeholder interviews, competitive and analogous research, user interviews, testing, and collaboration with developers on codebase, infrastructure, feasibility, and timelines.

## Source excerpt

Updated 1/16/2026. Originally published 12/10/2024 As we talked about in Part 1 of this blog series, The Design Process and Agile Development: Part 1 -- Design Is Collaborative, the design process provides teams with the opportunity to join forces, paving the way for an integrated team of user experience (UX) designers, product owners, and agile software development to create a successful product. So where do you begin? You have a new project and an integrated team. You know that success can be achieved in close collaboration between your team members, each representing deep expertise in desirability, viability, and feasibility. But you need to determine which activities are most profitable for the team to put their heads together on and what their responsibilities should be. Find Out Together Finding Out is where it all starts, but it most certainly doesn't only happen at the start! We 'find out' in continuous cycles throughout the project, not just from our users, but also from our stakeholders and product and development teammates. After all, though the end product is ultimately for our end users, design is also influenced by viability, or the business, and feasibility, or the developers. So it makes sense to 'find out' collaboratively. You can do this through stakeholder interviews, competitive analysis and analogous research, user interviews and testing, and continuous integration (CI) tools. Stakeholder Interviews Stakeholder interviews are an early, integral step for determining what your stakeholders care about -- their hopes and fears, past project experiences that might drive their decision-making, key metrics they need to hit, and any assumptions they may have. Not only will you build rapport, you'll also learn how to engage your stakeholders through the design process. I've experienced that not all stakeholders have immediate faith in design, so understanding how they measure success and engaging with their success criteria throughout your work can be cruc