Thorough usability testing, is deducible how effective the use of a software is. Its fundamental goal is determining user-friendliness. Scores such as learnability, efficiency, memorability, error handling and satisfaction among others are tested against the actual software. Such integrative thinking during development is not only economically beneficial but also configured towards revenue models for any premium softwares. The scrutiny involved in the testing may lead a developer towards discovery of bugs and potholes.
User-centric products development will be preceded by a cross-sectional understanding of your users, possible landscape of devices you and should target as well as engagement the product should seek.
Development processes that are user-centric will score on the following criteria in regards to the end-user.
Intuitive
As partial as I could possibly get, software is as good as it graphic user interface (GUI). A bitter/sweet paradox, a friendly GUI can overcome an underlying poor structure or even weak development at the code level. Nonetheless, it would be heinous to bank all hope on the GUI. Expectation given to a software should be met with performance as well.
Deficiency
An efficient software will feature support to most, if not all, computing architecture. Its security standards should be up to date, negating the presence of memory leaks, seamless performance among other expected utility-founded scores. Software intuitiveness tethers optimum efficacy of such application. One’s initial interaction with an inefficient software will most likely be the last time they prefer it to any others, either before it or not.
Simplicity of installation
Software usage is saddled within their creator’s ingenuity. The trick is having the first user-contact experience (installation) with your software as elementary as possibly could be. Simplicity would suggest that the process is assisted, well documented and secure. A wizard-guided installation method scores highly under such premise.
Easy to update
As with the installation process, updating software should equally be as easy. Update method any short of such, will more than likely get a skip from the user. As more perceptive of you probably released, unpatched security holes, memory leaks, and deprecation will be the results to continued skip of updates. For continued consumption of development products, it is intuitively requisite to have simplicity-guided development.
Maintaining user-centricity in software development should be an integral element in all the stages involved. Just like the entire process is a creativity-intensive exercise, ensuring the end-target of such creativity has nothing short of intrigue moments after usage should be a goal.
So, as you can see it is not enough to have a good idea. Popular software needs to be user-friendly, understand user needs and care about each one of them. It is not so easy to be a software developer, but with our advices we believe your program will be on top.
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