13 Feb 2007 1111H

Usability, prototyping, requirements gathering lifecycle

We have a major snowstorm today and it’s bad, hella bad out. Don’t know if I can make it out today. Getting cabin fever. So I’m going to rant here.

I hate JAD sessions! Sitting hours after hours in stuffy dim conference rooms, lit mostly by blueish LCD projector light. Bah! It’s a very heavyweight methodology and we need to move us closer to what the stakeholders and users want, which is to get their hands on the software that will help them get their work done. We still need reqs session with stakeholders, business, users. But I’m experiencing some pretty good success with cut-rate usability testing with paper/pixel prototypes, which supports the agile methodology and helps us overcome business owner/stakeholder myopia. I think we can short-circuit the process by iterating before stakeholders in session, doing simultaneous joint requirements and wireframing on the whiteboard, agile-like! And I think after the first cut, we take the wireframes and go to users for first round of usability testing with paper prototyping! And then after the next iteration we go back to them! Grrr!

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