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Why
should there be an objection to User Centered Design and developing
a superior user experience. Surely, it makes good business sense?
The answer is simple! To do it properly, you have to engage
a usability professional or analyst to develop contextual analysis.
Perhaps you have to use your imagination and develop imaginary
personas based on target demographics. Next you develop a user
interface prototype, perhaps as part of a participatory design
process. Together, the designers, usability professionals and
clients have devised what they think is THE answer.
That
process may have taken anything up to 6 months, even in a relatively
fast environment. Meanwhile, the opposition launched an inferior
product.
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ConferenceReport
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Dec
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This
report is long overdue. The UML2000 Conference took place in
York, England in October 2000. As part of the first 2 days of
workshop events, Nuno Nunes organized a workshop entitled, "Towards
a UML Profile for Interaction Systems" or TUPIS.
Here
are my notes from that days activities.
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Dec
22nd, 2000 |
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If
Rational Unified Process is to become the process of choice
for the ".com" enterprise then it must address all
the richness of the skills involved in producing a website.
It must seek to become a process which embraces user interface,
interaction, graphic design and usability. It must seek to become
a process which facilitates a superior user experience, not
just a superior systems architecture.
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Dec
17th, 2000 |
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Just
a short comment, have you ever tried to use use Rational-Rose?
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I
think that this clearly proves your point about the lack of
UI knowledge and expertise at Rational, read
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My
company has started using Rational as well. I am responsible
for UI design and documentation. Although I am not especially
enamoured of RUP, I do not think it has to be the "death of
UI design." In fact, we are using it to make our most user-centered
product ever, read
more...
The thread on Raskin vs Cooper just keeps on running
with advocates for both the great gurus of UI coming forward
with their opinion.
As
an advocate of Cooper's methodology, I think he has solved
a critical question in UI design methodology that was not adequately
addressed previously, namely, how do we take all of that important
information that we've gathered about our users and feed it
appropriately into the design of the user interface? read
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I
appreciate Korman's insight that Cooper and Raskin's fundamental
disagreement is with respect to the utility of quantitative
methods in interaction design. However, I think Korman misses
Raskin's point about the value of an engineering approach.
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Dec
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WARNING:
This is NOT a UI Design related paper.
Due
to popular demand from several groups including the OMG's eCommerce
Domain Task Force, some recent work by uidesign.net editor David
Anderson in the field of OO Modeling is being made available
through uidesign.net.
This
paper discusses advances in modeling business systems using
UML. The paper suggests that the Domain Neutral Component [Coad
et al 1999] can be simplified and developed as a UML Profile
for business systems.
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