Back in 2008 I was running a design agency. We were always looking at ways to work better together and so one day we applied "pair-programming" approach to the

Back in 2008 I was running a design agency. We were always looking at ways to work better together and so one day we applied "pair-programming" approach to the UX part of a project. I must say that it was one of the best experiences I have ever had. We wouldn't always sit right next to each other and only let one person do the work, sometimes we would work on each of our machines but we would maybe spend 70% of the time with only one of us working and the other observing. From that day I have always tried to do as much sitting together to solve especially the hard parts together, as possible. A lot of the times we get caught up in these methodologies as if you can only do one or the other. At least in UX it helps quite a lot when you have some nuts to crack. You don't need to do it 100% of the time, in fact you don't need to do it at all, but it definitely a helpful tool for UX designers if they can get beyond the "someone looking over my shoulder" issue and (I think this is very important) find a good partner to do it with.