Category Archives: Project Management

Software requirements in a nutshell

Requirements are statements of things that your product must achieve for it to be considered successful. If you are building a customized solution for a client, requirements express the wants and needs of your client. If you are building a … Continue reading

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Understanding the process of user interface design

Designing a user interface for a non-trivial product is a complex task. One traditional approach to designing and building software products was the waterfall model, where requirements are first gathered and written up in specifications documents. These are then handed … Continue reading

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What is involved in designing user interfaces for an application?

Designing a user interface is, you’d might think, just a matter deciding what buttons and controls are on the screen and what happens when you press them. That’s not incorrect, but there’s usually a little bit more to it than … Continue reading

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Overcoming objections to involving users in your software project

According to the User-Centered Design (UCD) philosophy, actual users should be involved throughout all stages of a software or product development project. Firstly, users are indispensable while the project team learns about the users and their work (requirements gathering), and … Continue reading

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What is User-Centered Design?

User-Centered Design is an approach to software design that encourages the active involvement of real users during all stages of the project. It helps ensure that we really understand the users’ needs, and it helps ensure that the product we … Continue reading

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