A new combined method for UCD and software development and case study

The final goal of software development is to deliver an application that match user´s expectation to a larger extent. In order to understand user´s requirements more accurately, User Centered Design (UCD) is introduced into software development for a while. But this cooperation still can´t satisfy market-oriented software implementation due to problems such as delivery delay and nasty conflicts. As to solve the low efficiency of communication between UCDs and developers, we bring up this new combined model, Inter-combined Model as we called. This model also aims to shorten the knowledge transfer from designers to developers. In this paper, we describe the working process of Inter-combined Model and illustrate it with a project. Our experience confirmed that Inter-combined Model has positive effect on human resource arrangement and cost reduction.