Colleagues, UPA'06 conference committee invite you to submit your narratives to the next year's conference "Usability through storytelling". As user experience...
Alain, You interpreted it correctly. Improved usability is often more important than saving implementation time. For example, a project we had a few years ago...
Alain, You interpreted it correctly. Improved usability is often more important than saving implementation time. -- Alain: With the word /often/ in that...
For example, a project we had a few years ago redesigning the UI for customer service support for a major service provider. If a project manager were to have...
Most small start ups are providing functionality that doesn't currently exist and of such a value that users wil put a lot of effort into learning the product...
Most small start ups are providing functionality that doesn't currently exist and of such a value that users wil put a lot of effort into learning the product...
I don't think you understand the scenario correctly. The usability effort was directed towards the UI for the customer service representatives. The number of...
I don't think you understand the scenario correctly. The usability effort was directed towards the UI for the customer service representatives. The number of...
-- Alain: Absolutely! And I think Agile approaches have definite advantages there. They are very good at making sure that all factors and issues are laid out ...
-- Alain: Absolutely! And I think Agile approaches have definite advantages there. They are very good at making sure that all factors and issues are laid out...
For those looking at the OQO 01, it arrived Thursday and I decided today (Sat) to send it back. I never really got as far as "what will I use it for" because...
Alain wrote: "Maximising usability at all costs is the wrong idea, and it is anti-Agile. Cost and time of producing the software is a very important part of...
Larry Constantine
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Sep 6, 2005 8:52 pm
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enjoy: http://blogs.compuware.com/cs/blogs/jkern/ I have another post poised on the topics surrounding why we struggle -- not only at usability, but on things...
-- Larry Constantine wrote: Yes, of course, but nobody was waving the "usability at any cost" flag. The issue should always be total cost of ownership and...
Alain, It was Jon Meads who wrote the “first wrote” (below) not me. As to agile design (and agile modeling), I think of it as design and modeling...
Larry Constantine
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Sep 7, 2005 3:11 pm
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Alain, It was Jon Meads who wrote the "first wrote" (below) not me. -- Alain: Sorry guys, I was sure I had traced the original posting down to Larry. ... As to...
Alain asked: "For a nine month project, how much time do you typically spend on the initial UCD stuff before the first line of code is written. And what ...
Larry Constantine
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Sep 7, 2005 4:34 pm
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Under pressure (which is almost always), we prefer to begin with an engineering triage to enable software design/development to proceed in parallel with...
Alain asked: "For a nine month project, how much time do you typically spend on the initial UCD stuff before the first line of code is written. And what...
... When you say that: "functional software can be developed and tested with ad hoc UIs which are later reworked to conform to emerging UI designs." Is...
Larry Constantine
lconstantine@...
Sep 7, 2005 5:48 pm
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Hi! Jeff, Are you still looking for people? If yes, in what location? I am located in New Jersey. I am interesting in positions in NYC. Thanks! - Cindy Jeff...
... Yes & no... mostly no. Quite a few people responded to my original post, and I have resumes for a few very qualified people. When I originally dropped the...
Hello everyone! Diaspar Software, Digital Focus and ProjectSuccess would like to announce that we are co-hosting XP Day DC 2005, a 1-day eXtreme Programming...
Hi, We would like to announce that we are running a tutorial entitled "The Six Million Dollar Customer" at OOPSLA 2005. This tutorial will introduce you to...
At the Northern Utah HCI meeting last night I got to perform a bit of my rant against "iterations" (as opposed to "deliveries"). There seemed to be some...
... Very nice paper, and it is well-described as a rant. I myself, as all here know, eschew controversy, so I might have gone a different way. ;-> I...
... I converted my response to this into a blog entry at http://www.xprogramming.com/blog/Page.aspx?display=RunningTestedFeatures Thanks again for the article,...
... My bad, thanks for the catch, it's already fixed. I had that reference in the Governance paper; didn't detect its absence here. I care about these things,...
... Well, that makes you a wuss, more than fuddy-duddy. Use of the term fuddy-duddy is self-incriminating, I suspect. ... Yes. I like delivery for that reason....
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