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From: Michel Vuijlsteke <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Respecting the Customer
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:12:51 +0100
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2009/1/23 Mike Ferguson <>

> While it is true no doubt that part of debugging is seeing how all the
> parts work together with each other, surely there is some benefit to also
> fist testing each in isolation.


Ah, well.
My actual day job is user-centered design, and I would argue that things
start a lot sooner than that.

I'd start with a field study <http://www.namahn.com/method/field-studies>;,
write a number of scenarios of use<http://www.namahn.com/method/scenarios-use>;,
look at mental model design <http://www.namahn.com/method/mental-models>; and
conceptual design <http://www.namahn.com/method/conceptual-design>;, then go
on to different iterations of mock-ups <http://www.namahn.com/method/mockup>;,
make a prototype <http://www.namahn.com/method/prototype>;, etc.

(all links to my day job, for which blatant plugging apologies, but this is
what I do and know how to do, and I think it's pretty salient)

Michel

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