I want to thank everyone for very quickly signing up for this group. I'm seeing a really great mix of participants with varying degrees of experience in both...
... As always, the answer is "it depends." I lump usability people into three groups: 1. up-front people: those who work at pre-development/pre-product stage...
Jeff, I want to thank you for inviting me. Looking through the membership I see that quite a few people know me, and mostly for my recent work on Agile...
... Well, it sort of depends how you're lumping together. Within Landmark, when most people say "usability" they tend to lump together the 2 human factors...
... Hi Jeff. Thanks for organising this. I may be more of a lurker, but am very interested. I am a ScrumMaster, and find that a "self organising team"...
I can't claim to be an expert on user interface design or agile methods, but here's a thought that's been bothering me for a while: It's been my experience...
Hi Jeff, ... I (just some guy with no user experience expertise) suspect that such things can happen only if the team doesn't revisit the user experience...
... An application needs a UI metaphor as much as it needs a system metaphor, if it is to successfully grow incrementally. Take a look at Microsoft Word. It's...
... I know some HI people who want to say so ... but if it can be done quickly enough, maybe we don't care. ... In what "percentage" of programs is direction...
Jeff, An effective way around this problem is to draft a navigation architecture (screen flow) in advance based on provisional understanding of user roles and...
Agile-Usability: Sometimes two or more different user interfaces must cover the same Logic Layer. One common industry reason is versioning. Version 5, for...
... This is what I've been using for a while. I'm now responsible for the user experience of a 10+ year old large-scale software system. Every 2-3 years, it is...
... Who said, "Refactoring users is hard"? I have heard it was Martha Lindeman. Maybe her words are only available in molecular format. The problem with...
Jeff, ... Certainly in my experience there is a value in planning the flows and interaction up-front and capturing that in some formal or semi-formal manner. ...
... Would it help if your Integration Tests took pictures of every screen (regardless of its platform) in every data state, and uploaded all of these to a Web...
... My approach to this has been to integrate Constantine and Lockwood's usage-centered design, as well as Jeff Patton's agile-interaction design techniques. ...
... I'm seeing a pattern in this post, and Brian O'Byrne's subsequent post: that is a big picture showing the system navigation is pretty valuable for...
... I start to squirm when folks start to automate too much. You want to automate tedious tasks - but want to avoid automating tasks that are information...
... Certainly for the first of the two projects I mentioned the chart was drawn big and stuck on the wall. Everyone got used to referring to it, and anyone...
... was ... The visible posting and hand notation is an ideal agile adaptation for a technique. If you were overly formal you might have modified the diagram...
... Funnily enough I think they are as needed as anybody else on a well balanced crew. Just like you have some software engineer ninja (or more) to ask very...
... an ... well ... Yeah - I think I overstated myself a little. I was trying to place emphasis on the activities done by the person - and not necessarily a...
... The problem with focusing on simplicity is that there are often multiple usability goals, and simplicity (often characterized as ease of learning) and...
... What this says to me is that usability expertise is necessar on a development team (whether or not agile). As a practical matter, because so few software...
Our organization recently adopted Agile methodologies (Scrum, Test- driven design) in order to implement a large, multi-year, J2EE project. We just started our...
Hello, everyone. Thanks for setting this up, Jeff! ... Your point is well taken, but I think you're selling APIs a little short. APIs, after all, are...
... I agree that exposure to these models is a great communication and education tool. We were working on our task model and a our lead developer stopped by,...
By way of background, I'm a Certified Scrum Master (for about 6 months now) with about 10 years experience doing user experience work for the Web. My company...
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