T7 Usability design— a new rational unified process-discipline

Duration: 9:00 – 13:00 (half day), Sunday 15.10

Location: Meeting room 2, Oslo Kongressenter

Dr Bengt Göransson, Guide Redina AB, SWEDEN

Email: bengt.goransson@guide.se

Dr Magnus Lif, Guide Redina AB, SWEDEN

Email: magnus.lif@guide.se

Intended audience

Both practitioners and researchers

Tutorial goals

The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a software engineering process that is widely used and has contributed to creating a more unified view on software development. However, problems with the use of the process have been observed in several projects, and it does not provide support enough to produce a usable system.

During this tutorial we will introduce a new discipline, Usability Design, extending the RUP. Our aim with the new discipine is to complement the RUP to make it more suitable for systems development where usability is aknowledged to be important. The way to do this is to apply a more user-centered approach to the process.

Tutorial outline

• Introduction to UCD
• Problems with UCD in the Rational Unified Process
• Introduction to the new Usability Design discipline
• Exercises and discussions
• A case study
• Practical tips and hints

Instructors

Bengt Göransson is a usability designer at Guide Redina AB, Sweden and has a PhD in HCI from Uppsala University. Bengt has more than 15 years of experience in doing user-centred design as a consultant.

Magnus Lif has more then 10 years experience of working with usability. He has got a PhD in HCI and is focusing on methods for UCD. Today, he is a usability designer at Guide Redina AB, Sweden, a company specializing in developing usable systems.