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    THE PROCESS OF USABILITY

    ENGINEERING
    Usability Engineering: Process,
    Products, and Examples
    Chapter 4

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    BUILDING A USER INTERFACE

     Building a User Interface is part of the larger problem of building


    a software system.
     Software development is hard.
     Software development is an example of a wicked problem.

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    USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT
    CHANGES SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
     Adding a significant user interface to a software development
    project adds challenges.
     Support for connectivity.
     Support for media.
     Support for user-tailoring.

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    ACTIVITIES IN SOFTWARE
    ENGINEERING
     Understanding and documenting the context of the project.
     Understanding and documenting the problem to be solved
     Designing and documenting a solution in the context.
     Implementing the solution.
     Testing and evaluating the solution.

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    THE WATERFALL MODEL OF
    SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

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    PHASES OF THE WATERFALL
    MODEL
     Systems engineering and analysis
     Software requirements analysis
     Software design
     Code
     Testing
     Maintenance

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    BENEFITS OF EXACTLY FOLLOWING
    THE WATERFALL MODEL
     Following any methodology imposes discipline on the software
    development process.
     Following a phased model improves cost and resource forecasting.

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    PROBLEMS OF FOLLOWING THE
    WATERFALL MODEL
     Does not inherently support iteration.
     Requires customer to completely elaborate requirements at the
    beginning of the project.
     Customer will not see an artifact until late in the development cycle.

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    ACTIVITIES OF USABILITY
    ENGINEERING
     Understanding and documenting the context of the project.
     Understanding and documenting the problem to be solved.
     Designing and documenting a solution in the context.
     Implementing the solution.
     Testing and evaluating the solution.

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    USABILITY AND SOFTWARE
    ENGINEERING
     In the abstract, the steps for both tasks are the same.
     We can set up parallel flows of activities for both usability and
    software engineering.
     The model supports iteration.

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    USABILITY AND SOFTWARE
    ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES

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    USABILITY AND SOFTWARE
    ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES

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    THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

     Building a good interface is often the result of the efforts of a


    team.

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    DEVELOPMENT TEAM
    STRUCTURE
     Distribution of activities and communications
     Chief programmer team
     Egoless programming

     Choice depends on group dynamic and type of


    problem
     Exploratory problems may work better with egoless programming where
    familiar well-structured problems may be better with a chief programmer
    structure.

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    PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

     Users are members of the development team and work closely


    with the designers.
     Advocates of participatory design stress that the participatory
    aspect leads to greater buy-in from users and hence higher user
    satisfaction.

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    CONCLUSIONS

     Usability and software engineering always follow a process.


     Usability engineering often takes place in the larger context of
    software engineering.

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