Usability Methods and Practices in Software Life Cycle

Usability methods and practices in software Life Cycle.

The usability methods include task analysis, scenarios and story board. During each method various observation procedures can be used. Think aloud technique forces the user to describe each step and often can be very subjective and difficult to fully accomplished. Also, the method generates a massive amount of information that has to be analyzed. Information obtained through various exercises then it has to be documented in a formal report and represented in a prototype or system code. Prototypes are ideal to test preliminary designs and interfaces.