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ERIC Number: EJ635437
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0888-6504
What Is So Good about User-Centered Design? Documenting the Effect of Usability Sessions on Novice Software Designers.
Sugar, William A.
Journal of Research on Computing in Education, v33 n3 p235-50 Spr 2001
Describes how novice software designers interpreted usability sessions and how the designers responded to users' reactions to their prototypes. Describes qualitative analysis of class projects, usability sessions, and interviews with graduate students and proposes recommendations on how to improve the training of educational software developers. Coded data sources are appended. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Software Development, Courseware, Designers, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Interviews
Available electronically: http://206.58.233.20/jrte/33/3/abstracts/sugar.html
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Design Methodology; Design Research; Novices; Training Needs; Usability; User Preferences