Police in Slovakia is starting to use a special tablet with app for checking the info about a person or a car. Case study with insights from the successfully delivered project - thanks to the combination of UX design by ui42 and Agile development by HP Slovakia.

1. Mobile Policeman
Martin Krupa
November 9th 2013

2. Content
Police in Slovakia is starting to use a special tablet with app
for checking the info about a person or a car.
Case study with insights from the successfully delivered
project - thanks to the combination of UX design by ui42 and
Agile development by HP Slovakia.

3. ui42 – more than 15 years with web
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The biggest job portal in Slovakia (stared in ui42 in 1997). Profesia was
later sold to the British media company Daily Mail and General Trust
who also owns www.jobsite.co.uk.
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First Slovak content management system Buxus (1999) has been running
on more than 200 webs and at least 1000 active users work with Buxus
daily. (SK, CZ, NL, UK)
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ui42 is the pioneer of Usability in Slovakia. We use think aloud
metodology based on Nielsen Norman Group.
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ui42 was nominated for the European Business Awards in the category
Innovation of the year 2010 and 2011 for web usability testing in the
category Innovation of the year. Top 10 Country Representatives
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Google Certified Partner

4. ui42 & usability
Already 52 #usability sessions: 84 days, 435 users, 29 clients

5. Project NEV (National Registry of Cars)

7. NEV: Constraints & challenges
• Specially designed PC with a touchscreen & hardware
keyboard
• Location: in car, day & night, under the stress
• Users: policeman in terrain
• Online but connection to central serves might be slow
(e.g. slow loading of pictures)
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Application is part of Frequentis SW environment
1024x500 pixels
Software keyboard designed by other vendor
Other apps developed by other vendors
Implementation in Java Swing
No experience with UX & Agile in HP Slovakia

8. NEV: Sketches

9. NEV: Process Maps

10. NEV: Visual Design

11. NEV: User Interface Design Manual

12. NEV: Usability Testing

16. NEV: Agile & UX

17. NEV: Result

18. UX vs. Agile
• Separate design and development
• Maintain a coherent vision of the user interface
architecture

19. Contact
Martin Krupa
krupa@ui42.sk
www.ui42.sk/usability
www.ui42.sk/blog
twitter: @martinkrupa
+421 905 403 728
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