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Redesign workshop: involving software developers actively in usability engineering

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Nis Bornoe,

Jane Billestrup,

Jesper Lumbye Andersen,

Jan Stage,

Anders BruunAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '14: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational

Pages 1113 - 1118

https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2670288

Published: 26 October 2014 Publication History

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In practical usability engineering feedback is only useful if it cost effectively leads to design changes. Several studies have looked into different feedback formats when passing on usability problems to software developers. Research has shown positive results both when providing developers with redesign proposals, and when actively involving software developers in the redesign process. Through facilitation and lecturing in interaction design provided by usability specialists, we wanted to further explorer potential advantages of actively involving developers in a collaborative redesign process. The leading question was: "Can software developers contribute actively to alternative redesign suggestions?" Under the guidance of usability specialists, we found that the developers were able to constructively reconsider the existing design based on a top down approach. In this paper we report a hands-on approach towards running such a redesign workshop.

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Bornoe NStage J(2017)Active Involvement of Software Developers in Usability Engineering16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction --- INTERACT 2017 - Volume 1051610.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_10(159-168)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_10
Bornoe NBruun AStage JDuh HLueg CBillinghust MHuang W(2016)Facilitating redesign with design cardsProceedings of the 28th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/3010915.3010921(452-461)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3010915.3010921
Øvad TBornoe NLarsen LStage J(2015)Teaching Software Developers to Perform UX TasksProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction10.1145/2838739.2838764(397-406)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2838739.2838764
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Redesign workshop: involving software developers actively in usability engineering
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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DOI:10.1145/2639189

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Bornoe NStage J(2017)Active Involvement of Software Developers in Usability Engineering16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction --- INTERACT 2017 - Volume 1051610.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_10(159-168)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_10
Bornoe NBruun AStage JDuh HLueg CBillinghust MHuang W(2016)Facilitating redesign with design cardsProceedings of the 28th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/3010915.3010921(452-461)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3010915.3010921
Øvad TBornoe NLarsen LStage J(2015)Teaching Software Developers to Perform UX TasksProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction10.1145/2838739.2838764(397-406)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2838739.2838764

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