Tutorial: 25. The Usability Engineering Lifecycle

Monday 09:00 - 17:30.

Deborah J. Mayhew, Deborah J. Mayhew & Associates, USA

Benefits
Learn an engineering process for designing good user interfaces for traditional software and web applications. This process is a set of usability engineering tasks/techniques with explanations of when and why to apply them during software development. Discuss the promotion, establishment, and institutionalization of the Usability Engineering Lifecycle within software development organizations.

Origins
A CHI "classic" that consistently receives high ratings. Updated to reflect new ideas, approaches, and methods.

Features

• extracting usability goals from requirements analysis data and using them to drive design
• applying a structured approach to user interface design
• applying iterative evaluation techniques
• integrating the Usability Engineering Lifecycle into software development methodology
• promoting, establishing, and institutionalizing the Usability Engineering Lifecycle in software development organizations
• applying the Usability Engineering Lifecycle to web development projects

Audience
Development managers, developers responsible for usability, and usability practitioners doing both traditional software development and web development. Experience with software development methodologies useful. No prior experience with usability engineering necessary. Experienced and novice usability practitioners will benefit.

Presentation
Lecture materials supplemented by instructor's "war stories" and audience discussion.

Instructor
Deborah J. Mayhew holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, and has worked for 21 years in software development organizations, and for 18 years as a usability engineer. She has authored and contributed to four books, and has consulted to IBM, AT&T, American Airlines, Ford Motor Company, and the New York City Police Department.

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• 3. Task Analysis Meets Prototyping: Towards Seamless UI Development (Sunday)
• 6. Practical Usability Methods in Web Site Design (Sunday)
• 8. Successful Strategies for Selling Usability into Organizations (Sunday)
• 9. Cognitive Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human Memory and Problem Solving (Sunday)
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• 19. Programmable User Modeling Analysis in Theory and in Practice (Monday)
• 20. Planning and Implementing User-Centered Design (Monday)
• 25. The Usability Engineering Lifecycle (Monday)
• 28. Conceptual Design (Monday)