Integration of User Centered Design and Software Development Process

User Centered Design is an important aspect of any product to evaluate its success in the market, where there is an abundance of product of similar functionalities. The software products are moving towards the phase where the end user can take the blocks of software, customize and build their own products. This adds more emphasize on the role of UCD in the product development. Many a time, the process for providing a good user experience is treated separate from the process of developing the product or software. There is an increased awareness that the two process need to integrate and proceed hand in hand for success of the product. This paper investigates and proposes the integration model for different development models with the User Centered Design process.