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search Article Metadata Created: SannaH (05 Dec 2007) Last
edited: hamishwillee (06 Feb 2012)    Any development activity
should ideally be preceded with a thorough user understanding
and investigation of the usage patterns, expectations from the
product and other key elements like skill sets of the end user,
their behavioural, cultural study etc. This kind of analysis
comes in very handy while designing and architecting the
solution. The user study guides the design team in putting
together software which would be both efficient and easy to use
for the end user.  A qualitative research needs to be done to
understand the user’s domain and their usage pattern. There are
lot of techniques to understand the user’s requirements etc each
with their specific outcomes. Focus group is one such form of
qualitative research, in which a group of people from a specific
user group are invited to change thoughts and feelings about
certain subjects, products, servi