The Role of Iterative Usability Evaluation in Agile Development: A Case Study (Yanfei Ma, Yunhui Lu, and Dinara Saparova)

The agile approach to software development has significant impacts on the practice of user-centered design (UCD), including usability evaluation. To better understand the role of iterative usability evaluation during agile development, we recently conducted a study whose focus was the usability evaluation of a personal health–management system. The complexities of healthcare systems require thoughtful and well-structured usability evaluations—especially when the design process occurs within the context of an agile development process. (uxmatters.com)