Early incremental user testing design approach validation for satellite command center’s application

Abstract

Thales Alenia Space has recently widely deployed user centered design process in their software product conception. This standard breaks today technology and data centric approach by integrating end-users all along the iterative design stages: context and usage understanding, end-user need specification, quick mockups and end-user validation. This paper is a return on experience. It describes and investigates a dirty UCD methodology relevance based on prototyping and user testing only (skipping user research first activities). This process is made to fit project which needs front-end requirements at day one.