Usability, Concurrent Engineering and Mobile Phone Development

The technical complexity of mobile phones
continually increases due to the introduction of new
functions and technologies. The development
organisations face an increasing challenge in making
the products usable and useful. If for any reason an
organisation does not apply user-centred design
during the product development phase, the usability
engineers may encounter problems in doing their
daily work efficiently and effectively. A practical
solution is to adapt usability engineering to the
specific product development process by applying
standard project practices, planning and risk
management. We study how usability engineering can
be integrated with the Concurrent Engineering
development process and fast development cycles.

Autorentext

Dr. Pekka Ketola (Tampere, Finland), has worked on mobile phone and mobile computer research & development in Nokia since 1995. The special areas of interest are mobile user interface design, usability, user experience management and user interface innovation.

Klappentext

The technical complexity of mobile phones
continually increases due to the introduction of new
functions and technologies. The development
organisations face an increasing challenge in making
the products usable and useful. If for any reason an
organisation does not apply user-centred design
during the product development phase, the usability
engineers may encounter problems in doing their
daily work efficiently and effectively. A practical
solution is to adapt usability engineering to the
specific product development process by applying
standard project practices, planning and risk
management. We study how usability engineering can
be integrated with the Concurrent Engineering
development process and fast development cycles.