Just before Christmas Pariya Kashfi successfully defended her PhD thesis on Integrating UX Principles and Practices into Software Development Organisations. This thesis is worth reading for anyone struggling with the integration of UX principles and practices in organisations!
I was on the examination committee for the defence together with professor Natalia Juristo and professor Kaisa Väänäenen. Associate professor Marta Larusdottir was the opponent. Note that this was an all-women committee with a woman opponent!!
The overall research question for the work was:
How can software companies integrate UX principles and practices into their development processes and organizations?
Pariya Kashfi started the defence by an excellent presentation of her work. The presentation was followed by an in-depth discussion among professionals with Marta Larusdottir. Pariya Kashfi was super good at answering all questions, and managed to do a very good defence. I really enjoyed the discussion, especially since this thesis is in the area of my own PhD, but seven years later and with a focus on UX and not Usability.
The PhD is by publications and included six papers. All papers are available on Pariya Kasfi’s page on Research Gate.
- P. Kash?, A. Nilsson, R. Feldt, ?Integrating User eXperience Practices Into Software Development Processes: Implications of The UX Charac teristics”
PeerJ Computer Science (an Open Access Journal), 3, e130, 2017. - P. Kash?, A. Nilsson, R. Feldt, R. Berntsson Svensson, ?A Conceptual UX-aware Model of Requirements”
6th International Working Conference on Human-Centred Software En- gineering, 234-245, 2016. - P. Kash?, R. Feldt, A. Nilsson, ?Integrating UX Principles and Practices into Software Development Organizations: A Case Study of In?uencing Events?
In submission to The Journal of Systems and Software. - P. Kash?, R. Feldt, A. Nilsson, ?Integrating UX Principles and Practices into Software Development Organizations: A Case Study of Challenges and Success Factors”
In submission to The Journal of Systems and Software. - P. Kash?, R. Feldt, A. Nilsson, R. Berntsson Svensson, ?Evidence-based Timelines for User eXperience Software Process Improvement Retrospec- tives: A Case Study of User eXperience Integration”
42nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Ap- plications, 59-62, 2016. - P. Kash?, K. Kuusinen, R. Feldt, ?Stakeholder Involvement: A Success Factor for Achieving Better UX Integration”
1st Workshop on Stakeholder Involvement in Agile Development, NordiCHI, 2016.