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Agile Usability

Community
Agile
Topics
Agile Techniques

Jakob Nielsen, usability guru and author of Usability Engineering, raises the concern that Agile methods are a threat to traditional approaches to designing usability. He goes on to propose solutions so that usability designers can work together in the Agile world. In addition Alistair Cockburn, while generally supporting Jakob, takes issue with a few of his points.

Differentiated UX: Expression of an Emerging UI Design Trend?

Community
.NET,
Architecture
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Silverlight,
Rich Client / Desktop

Introduced with the rollout of the Windows Presentation Foundation, the concept of Differentiated UX (Differentiated User Experience) was intended to help promote a new capability associated with this technology for delivering enhanced user experiences. Recently, Brian Noyes and Dax Pandhi provided a more concrete explanation of the term and described its relevance to UI designers and developers.

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Agile compatibility

Community
Agile
Topics
Delivering Quality,
Methodologies,
Delivering Value,
Customers & Requirements

Design in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) world involves working with the user to understand the problem and come up with a user interface – typically on paper - of the entire system before turning it over, in Big Design Upfront (BDUF) manner, to the rest of the development team to build. So how can Robert Biddle claim that HCI has home-grown practices that are very similar to those of Agile?