Students who complete this unit will demonstrate that they can:

• Discuss why human-centered software development is important.
• Summarize the basic precepts of psychological and social interaction.
• Develop and use a conceptual vocabulary for analyzing human interaction with software: affordance, conceptual model, feedback, and so forth.
• Define a user-centered design process that explicitly takes account of the fact that the user is not like the developer or their acquaintances.
• Create and conduct a simple usability test for an existing software application.
• Design and implement a graphical user interface that:
  • uses GUI features appropriately;
  • is usable by the intended users;
• Assess the usability of a software application using discount usability techniques.