Thanks for replying Alan. After reading the discussion between you and Beck, I would not agree to it either. However, it is yet another bit in adding to my understanding of why things are the way they are today, and how they've evolved over time.
Are you or anybody in your team of Agilists blogging / writing papers on the direction you're taking? I would be interested in reading it. Meanwhile, In my team I'm using elements of Behaviour Driven Development to solve the problem of communicating nuances of interaction and usability to the developers. This is the approach I'm following. We are a large education website in India, and users for all our online apps are the same. So the job of developing strong personas for the apps has to be done once (and upgraded over time, with reduced effort). We are developing on Ruby on Rails. 1. When developing online apps, I am communicating both functionality and interaction issues in any webpage to the Backend Developer in form of Cucumber code. 2. At the same time, I am creating strong prototypes in Axure for the design elements for better communication to the Frontend Developer. 3. Over time, I'm looking to create a Design Pattern Library with a strong foundation of generative and evaluative methods. Each design pattern would be a combination of an Axure (or flash) prototype AND the Cucumber behaviour file. 4. Subtle changes in Design elements peculiar to different applications can be made by making changes to the Cucumber code. 5. Since the Developers have to pass all the tests I put in the Cucumber code, they don't consider their work as finished until they pass all tests, including usability issues identified by the UX team. Cucumber - http://cukes.info/ Is anybody else using this / versions of this? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41166 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
