Resources: Guidelines and Methods An Overview of Usability
Methodologies There are many published methodologies for
usability or user-centered design (UCD). All of these
methodologies focus on the people who will use a product and the
purpose for which they use it, but they also vary in emphasis
and approach. Designing the User Experience This UPA poster
shows a general UCD methodology, with typical activities and
definitions of key terminology. Usage Centered Design
Constantine & Lockwood's approach focuses on usage rather than
users and abstract rather than realistic models. It is closely
associated with object-oriented approaches and UML. For a book
on the subject, see Software for Use, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
TRUMP (TRrial Usability Maturity Process) This EU-funded project
looked at ways to raise the "usability maturity" of
organizations and recommends an approach to defining a UCD
methodology for a variety of projects Usability Engineering
Lifecycle Dr. Deborah Mayhew's methodology represents an
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