Designed for Use, 2nd Edition

Chapter 41 You’re Not Done

This is the last chapter of the book but not of your development process. At the very beginning of this book, I said that a typical development process looks a bit like this:

It’s not a coincidence that the last chapters of the implementation part of the book are about collecting data and dealing with user feedback. These things are research. In other words, you’re back where you started. Now that you’ve reached the end of the implementation part of your development process, it’s time to start anew, to rethink everything. Are people using your product the way you expected them to use it? Who is your real audience? Did ...