User centerdness is a term that
detects the future of a software development project. In my opinion, Facebook
has the most user centered software design. If we observe our friends and
relatives, we find that almost all of them are using Facebook. Even, it is a
very common phenomenon that the children who are around 5 years old have
already account in Facebook. The easiest part of Facebook is, it is so
convenient to use that no one required a teacher for understanding the using
process. A 5 years older child can use the Facebook very easily. Uploading
picture, chatting with friends, massaging them privately, making group studies
by having group massages and the usefulness go on and on.
According to Wikipedia, “ISO defines usability as "The
extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified
goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context
of use.” That means usability is the measurement of easiness to use any
products. When it comes to software usability it refers to the easiness of
using that particular software.
There are two reasons for having user centerdness in software or web
design and they are concerning about the user/customer, and also the concern of
benefit. Firstly, the software engineers make different software depending on
user need. For example, consider that the software designed make software like
MODDLE and the target users are the students and the lecturer. So in order to
achieve the expectation of user, the software designer should plan the software
according to the skills of the students and the lecturer. Otherwise it will
fail to achieve its goal in designing software. Moreover, as the user will be
using the software not the developer or the programmer, it should in simplex
way so that they can understand it easily. Another reason is the benefit of the
company. Normally organization buys those kinds of software that are convenient
to use and therefore if any software company wants to make a good business, it
should be very concerned about user centerdness.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability
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