UX from 30,000ft: Lecture 03 - Building under the Umbrella

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topic: Building under the Umbrella

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### Lecture 03 (50 minutes)

### [@sharpic](http://twitter.com/sharpic)

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noteid: Ch. 02 - Building under the Umbrella

specific: COMP33511

website: http://sharpic.github.io/COMP33511

author: [@sharpic](http://twitter.com/sharpic)

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topic: Why?

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1. Methodology and Planning;

1. Tools and Programming Techniques;

1. Influence over the Development Lifecycle to Benefit UX;

1. Support for/as the Software Engineer(s); and

1. Code has Beauty.

**Good/Creative Software Engineers Create Good UX;**

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topic: Process & Participants

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.fig[![To Do](Graphics/ch2-swprocess.png) .caption[Taken from Stephen Whittaker's (UCSC) EPSRC HCI Theme Day Keynote 19/01/2012 .credit[Whittaker 2012]]]

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topic: Lifecycle

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1. Waterfall;

1. Spiral;

1. Iterative;

1. Rational Unified Process; and

1. Scrum.

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topic: Developing for UX

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**Cowboy**

1.  R & D / Skunkworks;

1.  No Fixed Plan;

1.  Single / Pair Coder;

1.  No Admin & Probably No Direct Customers;

1.  Outcomes Uncertain.
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**Agile**

1.  Individuals and interactions over processes and tools;

1.  Working software over comprehensive documentation;

1.  Customer collaboration over contract negotiation; and

1.  Responding to change over following a plan.

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topic: Separation of Concerns

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**For the Project, For the Prototyping, For the Coding, For the Testing.**

1. MVC;

1. MVP;

1. PAC; and

1. SOA.

**Examples: XUL (XML User Interface Language); QT; Jetpack.**

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topic: GUIs

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**Types**

1. WIMP - window, icon, menu, and pointing device;

1. GUI & Widgets;

1. Skins & Wrappers; and

1. UI generated from functional descriptions.

**Separation Types**

1. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) / SOAP;

1. Remote procedure call (RPC); and

1. Representational state transfer (RESTful).

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topic: Open, Agile, and Participatory

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### Homesteading the Noosphere...

> "The open-source culture is a response to an identifiable set of drives and pressures. As usual, the culture's adaptation to its circumstances manifests both as conscious ideology and as implicit, unconscious or semi-conscious knowledge."