Making life easy! World Usability Day 2008 in Hamburg
Publicado el 20 November, 2008
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It was that time again yesterday, for the fourth year running: World Usability Day, which took place in 43 countries around the world under the motto „Making life easy!”. 14 events were organised in Germany alone, including gatherings in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg.
Hamburg saw usability experts from the research and practical side of things meet up to find out and report on the latest developments - in a jam-packed day with 16 lectures and three workshops. The topics covered ranged from the re-design of a health website and designing user-friendly sites for newspapers through to touch-free interaction with hand gestures.
I also gave a speech along with Patrick from eparo about „Consolidating agile software development and user-centered design”. So what exactly was it all about? In contrast to traditional software development, “agile” means that planning is done in iterations and sprints rather than in project phases. A sprint can last 2-4 weeks, with feature sets being defined at the outset and then developed and tested.
Methodology involved in user-centered design, like usability tests for instance, have to be integrated into these sprints - which the XING User Experience team has taken as an ideal opportunity to further enhance its work methods used up until now. More than 150 people came to listen to the talk, which was followed by a round of discussion. Lots of colleagues in the online sector are confronted with similar situations in their daily work, which meant that most of the questions involved how best to meet user requirements within the scope of agile projects.
We’re certainly looking forward to World Usability Day 2009!
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