Usability with Agile

Usability expert, Jakob Nielsen conducted some research about Agile Development Projects and Usability:

For 50 years, almost all experiences have shown that traditional waterfall development methods result in a poor user experience. The reason is simple: requirement specifications are always wrong.

Jakob says successfully integrating usability into an Agile approach involves 3 basic strategies: 

  • “Perform usability activities, such as user testing, in a few days.”
  • adopt “a parallel track approach, where the user experience work is continuously done one step ahead of the implementation work”
  • build “foundational user research that goes beyond feature development”

[Thanks for the bookmark Striving Green!]

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