Integrating people-centered and planet-centered design

Integrating Extreme Programming and User-Centered Design

The success of a software development project is associated not only with tools and technologies, but it also depends on how much the development process helps to be user-centered and developer-oriented. Involving customers in the process and being people-oriented, Extreme Programming (XP)– One of the popular agile methods – can be a choice for developing a usable system. The project under stud...

An Empirical Study on Integrating Agile and User Centered Design

This paper discusses an empirical study that identified challenges exhibited by industrial practitioners in integrating Agile development processes and User Centred Design (UCD). The study also identified practices utilised in order to achieve the integration. Fourteen in-depth, one-to-one interviews were conducted with 14 participants from 11 companies of varying sizes in five different countr...

Aspects of Integrating User Centered Design into Software Engineering Processes

Software Engineering (SE) and Usability Engineering (UE) both provide a wide range of elaborated process models to create software solutions. Today, many companies have realized the need for usable products and understood that a systematic and structured approach to usability is as important as the process of software development itself. However, theory and practice still have problems to effic...

Programmers are People , Too : Applying User - Centered Design to Middleware

Design Thinking = Human-Centered Design?