In response, human-computer interaction (HCI) has grown into a serious field of research, development, and application. To meet the specific needs of practitioners for methods and tools to develop user interaction designs with provably high levels of usability, Usability Engineering (UE) has emerged as a sub-discipline within HCI. Despite this attention to usability on some levels, much interactiv
e software is still too difficult to use - as any computer user knows. It is turning out to be more difficult to design for high usability than many first imagined. A major cause underlying poor usability is a lack of understanding of a usability engineering process for developing usable interaction designs. Although many software development teams now have roles for a usability engineer or usability specialist, software developers often still have primary responsibility for developing interactive systems. Most software engineers are not trained in usability methods and, therefore, do not have the knowledge, skills, or mindset to include usability methods in their life cycle activities. Many software developers believe that usability engineering is merely usability testing, done near the end of the development process. UXLabs training and certifications has been designed, to focus on usability methods and a usability engineering development process, it uses an integrative and cross-disciplinary approach to bring together a broad variety of topics together in relation to the problem of developing quality user interaction designs.
