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Agile-User Experience Design: With or Without a Usability Expert in the Team?

Authors:
Lou Schwartz

Keywords: Agile-UX; team composition; use case

Abstract:
In the past decade, numerous experiments of Agile-User Experience Design (also called Agile-UX) have been carried out. Through these experiments it remains unclear who should be in charge of the usability in an Agile-UX project development. After a review of the literature about the involvement of usability expert(s) in Agile-UX, this paper repeats two experiments which explore the necessity to involve usability experts in the team. The first experiment is based on the statement that developers should be able to manage the User-Centred Design (UCD) and conduct the related methods without the intervention of a usability expert, in order to respect agile practices. The second one is based on the statement that integration of a usability expert in project teams ensures better implementation of UCD and better results. Results of both experiments are discussed to validate research hypotheses for future work.

Pages: 359 to 363

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: October 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-304-9

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 27, 2013 to October 31, 2013