[abritinthebay]

> I tried various ways of reframing it such that the developer of the UI be the "user" but it didn't wash.

Are you surprised? The developer isn't the user of the UI, product wise, so no wonder it didn't get very far.

The trick in this case is to break the story down. So the original story isn't do-able in one sprint? Ok, so what is actually the MVP of that Story? What's the first block that builds the overall feature? Take a 5 point Story and make it three 2 point Stories or something. That's what the refinement step is for in Scrum.

Unless you're doing abnormally short sprints there should be some part of that Story that can be abstracted into a smaller Story that fits into a sprint.