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...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 13, 2004 2:55 pm
... What kind of credentials do usability experts need? I always just relied on the "doesn't suck" principle myself... ===== Phlip ...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 13, 2004 3:28 pm
... 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...
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David Anderson
netherby_uk
Jul 13, 2004 3:43 pm
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...
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Ron Vutpakdi
vutpakdi
Jul 13, 2004 4:01 pm
... 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...
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Deb
debhart9
Jul 13, 2004 5:50 pm
... 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"...
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Jeff Grigg
jeffgrigg63132
Jul 14, 2004 4:15 am
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...
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Dale Emery
dalehemery
Jul 14, 2004 7:08 am
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...
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John Brewer
jbrewer999
Jul 14, 2004 7:10 am
... 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...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jul 14, 2004 9:01 am
... 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...
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Larry Constantine
lconstantine@...
Jul 14, 2004 12:14 pm
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...
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Adam Carter
typidemon
Jul 14, 2004 1:38 pm
... Who says it 'doesn't suck'? Adam...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 14, 2004 1:40 pm
Agile-Usability: Sometimes two or more different user interfaces must cover the same Logic Layer. One common industry reason is versioning. Version 5, for...
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helen johnstone
hellfj
Jul 14, 2004 1:47 pm
... 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...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 14, 2004 1:48 pm
... 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...
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Brian O'Byrne
bobyrne_stat...
Jul 14, 2004 2:13 pm
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. ...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 14, 2004 2:36 pm
... 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...
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FelcanSmith, Mark
m_felcansmith
Jul 14, 2004 2:49 pm
... 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. ...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 14, 2004 2:52 pm
... 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...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 14, 2004 3:11 pm
... 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...
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Brian O'Byrne
bobyrne_stat...
Jul 14, 2004 4:21 pm
... 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...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 14, 2004 5:27 pm
... 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...
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Adam Carter
typidemon
Jul 14, 2004 5:36 pm
... 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...
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Jeff Patton
jeff621
Jul 14, 2004 6:27 pm
... 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...
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Gary F
gfyho
Jul 14, 2004 6:35 pm
... The problem with focusing on simplicity is that there are often multiple usability goals, and simplicity (often characterized as ease of learning) and...
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Gary F
gfyho
Jul 14, 2004 7:15 pm
... 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...
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Ann Dillon
ae_dillon
Jul 14, 2004 7:41 pm
Our organization recently adopted Agile methodologies (Scrum, Test- driven design) in order to implement a large, multi-year, J2EE project. We just started our...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Jul 14, 2004 9:11 pm
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...
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FelcanSmith, Mark
m_felcansmith
Jul 14, 2004 9:24 pm
... 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,...
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Kent Wakely
nowguy_26
Jul 14, 2004 9:49 pm
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...
