Rather, we may know really less when it comes to understanding the user before we start developing the product for a specific user group / TG.  Websites/ Products / Software developed without understanding the ‘end-user’ will make less business-sense & the final product may not “usable“.

To minimize the failure & increase the product usefulness, we need to understand the ‘user group’, which can be done by using “User-Centered Analysis” (UCA) methods.

User-Centered Analysis is NOT a part of the ‘product development lifecycle or SDLC‘. It’s even before we get into the actual product development.

UCA gives us a powerful understanding of the end-user’s ‘mental model‘. These methods provides you a rich information, insights on “how a user will use your website or application“. This, if understood in a right manner, will definitely help you to build an application/ website that user will really find “easy-to-use”.

User-Centered Analysis (UCA) is a set of proven and objective data-gathering and analysis techniques, which enables you to understand the ‘end-user and his mental model‘ about your website / application.

We will discuss some of these methods in the coming posts. Do let me know if you have any suggestions. Provide your comments, if possible.

Thanks,

Vishal Vaidya

This is my pretty first “welcome” post on a wordpress-based blog. I have my existing blog on blogspot, which you can visit at: http://usablearchitecture.blogspot.com, but I hardly write anything on this, due to seveal reasons, including the lack of time, to jot down whatever I want to for this blog. Sad!

I am hoping to write more stuff related to the domain I work in as well as I read / experience about other relevant domains.

Keep visiting my blog! Thanking you in advance!!!

Vishal Vaidya