[Sigia-l] Follow-up to Usability Testing

[Arthur Fink]

At 08:45 AM 1/24/2007, Dan_Chamberlain at dom.com wrote:

>This is prompted by Ziya's comments on the interaction between design and
>usability testing...
>
>    What is the standard process used by Internet companies for User
>    Interface development? As with Usability, I am particularly interested
>    in process used by companies where the Internet and Intranet are
>    critical to their business model.
>    What would your ideal UI process look like? Why?
>
>A very high level example would be: (Scope > Analysis > Design >
>Development > Test > Implement)

Scope -> Analysis -> Design -> prototype -> develop implement
                          ^      |             |       |
                          |      v             v       v
                          |     test <-----------------
                          |      |
                          |<-----+

This is my mode, in rough character diagram.

There's a loop:  design -> prototype -> test -> design ...

Then another potential loop: develop -> test -> prototype -> develop
Hopefully there's no new protyptyping at this point.

Finally, another loop after implementation.



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