Many times simply the wrong software is created. It may work very well. It may look good and is easy to use. But the organization that paid for it does not get the benefit from it as expected. It's because a great solution can solve the wrong problem.
Plank bridge after heavy afternoon rainfall, Rainforest near Chepo, Panama
Despite the vast improvements in the way how software teams create software since the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001 still many software projects fail in one way or another.
To many, the word design only describes how something looks but in fact it means how it works and looks. Well designed products are created based on a deep understanding of the activities users want to perform and are well engineered. This fitness makes these products superior to their competition and in some cases such products shake up an entire industry.
Activity-Centered Design helps to create smarter products that solve people's real problems by putting the focus on what people want to do through software instead of on how software is operated.
Stephan Schwab has written a book that teaches readers how to apply Activity Theory
to Software Development. Drawing from a long history of psychology and philosophy
Activity Theory can help practicioners to better understand what people want to do through
software. Based on that Activity-Centered Design is a practice that enables a whole team of
software designers to create a solution that solves the right problem
and delights customers.
Agile development teams will find it easy to use the practices from the book. UX experts will become an integral part of the team.
Learn Activity-Centered Design from the author of the book. Benefit from more than 30+ years experience in software development & design.
A purposeful mix of on-site training and coaching the whole team, potentially together with a number of other agile practices, will enable your team to create fitting software solutions.
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