ISO 13407

The EN ISO 13407 -centered design processes for interactive systems was a standard that describes a prototypical user- oriented software development process. A special development process can be considered as conforming to her when their recommendations are met. The EN ISO 13407 was published in November 2000 in the German version as DIN standard. As of January 2011, as a replacement for this standard EN ISO 9241-210 valid.

Construction

The standard consists in its construction both from the descriptions of the design of user-centric design, as well as explanations of the development of interactive systems, which focuses on making systems more user- friendly. These describe in a short, clear and very readable for a standard form of an iterative development process, determine the development of the software at the user and task characteristics. In addition, the standard contains further guidelines and tables for the reports on user-oriented activities.

Development process

The standard provides user-oriented design appears as a multidisciplinary activity that encompasses the knowledge of human factors and ergonomics knowledge and techniques. The ISO process consists of four major sub-activities:

This method is complementary to existing process models of software engineering and supplements this. The user-centered design process should, according to the standard begin at the earliest stage of the project and should then be run through repeatedly until the system meets the requirements. The importance and the effort for the user- oriented design is measured by the size and type of product to be developed and controlled for smaller projects by individuals.

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Criticism

In the approach of user-centered design of the proportion of direct user involvement in the development process is higher. Nevertheless, the claim of the Standard shall be measured against these forms of participatory software development. The normalized approach seems to admit not just the indispensable creative space for software development. On the other hand there is a structure and enables to make like always similar. So knowing all involved, as the procedure is.