A recent HCI / UCD project of mine has been to examine different ways of describing the user of a software product – so called “personas”. My focus was to examine whether representing the user with video instead of text would allow the developers to engage more in the lifes of the user. The amount [...]
Just got an email with the excerpt below today.
Your submission for IRMA2006 has been subjected to a double-blind, peer-review process, utilizing 3 or 4 external reviewers. The review process for your manuscript, “132” submitted to the 2006 IRMA International Conference has been completed. Your paper has been accepted for presentation at IRMA2006 and inclusion [...]
I gave a talk on combining UCD tools with iterative development methodologies like XP at a HCI conference yesterday. My main focus was that UCD tools needs to be incorporated into software methodologies in order for UCD tools to be more widely used.
Most can agree that we need to bring the user to the center [...]
On tuesday, I will attend the 5th HCI research symposium, where I will speak on combining personas (HCI) with iterative development methodologies – namely XP. After my presentation, I will participate in a panel debate with CBS professors Lene Nielsen, Torkil Clemmesen and others. If it is of any interest for you, then check [...]
Recently I sweared to myself that I wasn’t going back to PHP ever again, as I have gotten comfortable using Ruby on Rails. I guess I will have to swollow those words, as it seems I’m going back to PHP for a while. A programming job that gives me the chance to contribute to like [...]
The whole idea of using personas is to create a specific fictional character, that allows the designers and developers to explore the problem domain. One of Cooper’s points is not to use descriptions of real-life people, as theese do not contain enough aspects to describe all the design-challenges in the problem domain. According to Cooper, [...]
I recently sent a reduced-size paper about combining UCD and XP to a HCI/systems development conference. The first draft I sent out was created in a copy-paste manner from a larger paper, as an approaching deadline of the conference made it impossible for me to rewrite the paper into something that was actually fluent. So [...]
It is my quest and declared goal to remove as much documentation as possible when using personas and scenarios. Something is missing in agile development, and I believe the two UCD methods have much the missing in them that traditional agile development can learn from.
The developers shouldn’t be bothered with piles of documentation – neither [...]
I have before argued that it should be the scenarios that were specific in functionality and not the pesonas. That statement needs elaboration, as scenarios are much more than a list of requirements. If it was only a list of requirements, then why even consider mixing it with iterative development.
Using scenarios is a tool for [...]