User-centered design methodology
User-centered design according to the "snakes-and-ladders" "designing the user experience" poster, and according to http://www.upassoc.org/usability_resources/about_usability/what_is_ucd.html
- analysis phase
- field studies
- look at competing products
- document user profiles
- document task analysis
- document user scenarios
- document user performance requirements
- design phase
- brainstorm design concepts and metaphors
- document screen flow and navigation model
- do user walkthrus of design concepts
- begin design with pencil and paper: create low-fidelity prototypes
- do usability testing with low-fidelity prototypes
- create high-fidelity detailed design
- do usability testing again
- document standards and guidelines
- create a spec
- implementation phase
- do ongoing heuristic evaluations (i.e. ask an expert if you made any common mistakes)
- do usability testing as soon as possible
- deployment phase
- get user feedback with surveys
- field studies
- do usability testing
Salary and contractor rate surveys
iainstitute
aiga
coroflot
aquent
tools
conferences
user interface engineering's web app summit
adaptive path's UX intensive nielsen norman group's usability week
misc
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