Feb 2001 - Extending FDD for UI - Feature Driven Development is a model-driven short-iteration process for managing the analysis, design and construction phases of a software project. Feature Driven Development was developed in 1998 by Jeff De Luca following on the back of work by Peter Coad on Feature Lists.

Dec 2000 - Two Tracks to UCD - Good user centered design can be seen as a luxury. A luxury which is hard to justify when trying to run on web time. Even the enlightened manager might say, "You know, we realize that user experience is SO important to our business but how is it possible when we are constantly stretched at full capacity?"

Dec 2000 - TUPIS 2000 Report- My notes from the "Towards a UML Profile for UI Design" workshop at UML 2000. Interesting reading for those intrested in UML, and OO UI.

Dec 2000 - Observations on DNC - NOT A UI PAPER. Due to popular demand from various groups including the OMG's eCommerce Domain Task Force. This paper discussing OO modeling for business analysis is being made available at uidesign.net.

Sep 2000 - Extending UML for UI - I will be presenting proposals for two distinct levels of abstraction in the development of a user interface design. For the higher level, the Interaction Design, I will seek to layout a laundry list of attributes that would be required by a good modeling language for Interaction Design.

Jul 2000 - Server-side MVC Statechart Engine - Part3 in the series: handling unexpected Browser events, scoping and isolating logical units of work and database transactions, exceptions handling and recovery.

Jun 2000 - Evangelize with Usability - Using invalid usability test participants as product design evangelists in a big organisation.

Apr 2000 - Write Once Display Anywhere - A Review of the XDNL XML Document Navigation Language and an analysis of why Statecharts are really needed to solve the problem.

Apr 2000 - Lifestyle Snapshots- Developing a User Context for Persona Definitions whilst developing designs for Wireless Internet Devices.

Jan 2000 - Site Redesign Content Analysis - Using User Interface Analysis Strategies coupled with Goal delivery Analysis to develop a Required Content Model prior to Navigation/Interaction Design and HTML Implementation.

Jan 2000 - Site Redesign Requirements - Using Personas, Goals and Usage Scenarios to capture the needs for the site redesign.

Dec 1999 - Server-side MVC Statechart Engine - Part2 in the series: Object Model in UML Color for a Statechart Engine and Server-side management of Browser Client state.

Nov 1999 - UI Design from UML Analysis - Coad's UML in Color explained and illustrated with some early work examining how to develop a typical Web User Interface from the basic Archetypes in the Analysis.

Oct 1999 - Server-side MVC Presentation Layer - Part1 in the series: Modeling a Web User Interface with Statecharts and architecting a thin-client browser based UI using an MVC or Mediator Pattern.

Sep 1999 - Cover Summary Pattern - An Interaction Pattern: Search, Identify and Do. Achieving Common Tasks without reference to the "whole" of the data.

Aug 1999 - Tree Component Guidelines - from Swing by Matt Robinson and Pavel Vorobiev, the Usage Guidelines for a JTree Component. A first look at quantifying when, where and how to use a Tree Control.

Jul 1999 - Summary Tab Pattern - An Interaction Pattern: Facilitating the most common or important tasks whilst using a Tab Control to hold larger quantities of data.

Jun 1999 - Chessboard Layout Pattern - An Interaction Pattern: Design strategies and analysis motivations for developing a typical 2 dimensional Web style navigation.

Mar 1999 - User Interface Modeling - How to run a facilitated Content and Navigation Model Design Session to develop a Paper Prototype with User/Client buy-in.

Feb 1999 - User Interface Analysis - Strategies for Analysing the Interface Requirements and Developing the Content Model from which you can derive the Design and Implementation.

Jan 1999 - Descriptive Label Pattern - An Interaction Pattern: Optimising for viewing to reduce cognitive load and improve use of screen space .