A Survey of Usability and User-Centered Design Practice in IT Industry for Strategic Usability

IT 개발환경에서의 사용성 및 사용자 중심 설계의 전략적 접근을 위한 현황연구

  • Ji, Yong-Gu (Dept. Industrial & Information Systems Engineering, Soongsil University)
  • 지용구 (숭실대학교 산업정보시스템공학과)
  • Received : 2004.08.05
  • Accepted : 2004.09.30
  • Published : 2004.12.31

Abstract

This paper reports results of a recent survey of 184 Information Technology (IT) development practitioners and 90 User Interface (UI)/usability practitioners. This survey covered a broad range of issues including the respondents' profile, current development environment, usability and user-centered design (UCD) adoption issues in IT development practice, overall assessment of usability/UCD, and the most widely used usability/UCD methods and techniques. The results of this study are expected to provide an empirical basis for usability and UCD planning, training, adoption and execution in IT industry.

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