Title :
Rethinking the path to usability: how to design what users really want
Author :
Merill, C. ; Feldman, Diane
Abstract :
As the software market grows more competitive, companies with difficult-to-use products face higher customer support costs as they attempt to rework user interfaces to fix usability problems. It is time that software designers tried reversing the direction - get user requirements, design the user interaction with the product´s features, and then code the features - to produce software from the user´s perspective and logic.
Keywords :
software quality; user centred design; user interfaces; software usability; user interface design; user needs; user requirements; Cellular phones; Costs; Graphics; Logic; Marketing management; Pharmaceuticals; Programming profession; Software quality; Usability; User interfaces;
Journal_Title :
IT Professional
DOI :
10.1109/MITP.2004.20