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Process Agility and Software
Usability: Toward Lightweight Usage-Centered Design |
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Larry L. Constantine |
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[#110]: 2002 | Adobe .PDF File: about 169K. |
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Abstract: A streamlined and
simplified variant of the usage-centered process that is readily integrated
with lightweight methods is outlined. Extreme programming and
other so-called agile or lightweight methods promise to speed and simplify
applications development. However, as this paper highlights, they share with
the "unified process" and other heavyweight brethren some common
shortcomings in the areas of usability and user interface design.
Usage-centered design is readily integrated with these lightweight methods. As in extreme
programming , ordinary index cards help streamline the process of modeling
and prioritizing for design and implementation in successive increments.
Links to selected Web resources on extreme programming, agile modeling, and
other agile processes are also provided. |
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Keywords: usability, user
interface design, usage-centered design, extreme programming, lightweight
methods, agile methods, iterative development |
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Reprinted from Information Age,
August/September 2002. Revised and expanded version of a column from The
Management Forum, Software Development, vol. 9, no. 6 (June 2001). |
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[#110]: 2002 | Adobe .PDF File: about 169K. |
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Related Documents:
Modeling Shortcuts [#105],
Web Applications [#118]; Newsletter:
Agile Design,
Card-Based Models |
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