Articles by Desirée Sy

Desirée Sy has been crafting useful and enjoyable user experiences for over 16 years, the last 11 of them at Autodesk (formerly Alias). Customers and trade reviewers have described the user interfaces she’s designed as both innovative and a pleasure to use. She has presented and taught on topics, such as Agile usercentered design, gathering good usability data, usability investigations for open-ended tasks, and lowcost usability investigations at UPA and ACM SIGDOC.

Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-Centered Design

Abstract When our company chose to adopt an Agile development process for new products, our User Experience Team took the opportunity to adjust, and consequently improve, our user-centered design (UCD) practices. Our interface design work required data from contextual investigations to guide rapid iterations of prototypes, validated by formative usability testing. This meant that we […] [Read More]