Usability and Agile Development Methods
From May, UX Research in conjunction with alliance partners will be conducting seminars in Australian capital cities showcasing our methods. Dates will be announced shortly. These will be sponsored by The Web Industry Professionals Association (WIPA) and the talks will feature ways Agile methods of development can include usability. Agile is a term used to describe a range of methods including rapid prototyping and minimal documentation, and are particularly suitable for creating web interfaces for businesses, encouraging throw-away prototypes and allowing designers the freedom to be more creative. Incorporating User Centred techniques into these ‘unstructured’ development lifecycles means usability companies need to offer fast, short turn around services suitable for multiple test events, flexibly scheduled and at relatively low cost. These methods have an emphasis on mixing validation with requirements gathering during testing sessions, and leveraging outputs more directly into the design process. This approach has proven very popular so far and our low-cost, fast turn around usability testing service has seen strong demand in 2008.
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008, 8:50 am, News
