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Usage-centered design is a proven, scalable process for delivering systems closely fitted to the needs of end-users. For effective user interface design, usage-centered design employs Essential Use Cases, a refinement of conventional use cases that casts narratives into a structured form focused on purposes and separating user intentions from system responsibilities. Such models guide user interface design more effectively toward ease and efficiency of use. Through discussion, illustrative examples, and hands-on application, this tutorial will introduce techniques for constructing and elaborating User Role Models, deriving compact Use Case Models in essential form, and applying these models to realistic problems in user interface design.
Participants will learn how structured Essential Use Cases differ from conventional use cases and how they fit into a systematic usage-centered design process for object-oriented software. They will gain practice in deriving Essential Use Case Models, writing structured narratives, and applying them to user interface design problems. Attendee Background: Participants should have some experience with use cases as employed in object-oriented analysis and design. Familiarity with basic user interface design principles and issues will also be helpful. Dr. James Noble is a Research Fellow in Object-Oriented Design at the Microsoft Research Institute at Macquarie University, Sydney. James has ten years experience working and researching with object-oriented systems, and has presented papers and tutorials on object-orientation and usage-centered design on three continents. Larry Constantine, Professor of Computing Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, is a pioneer of modern software engineering practice and an internationally recognized authority on the human side of software. He has 10 books and over 125 papers to his credit. Lucy Lockwood, President of Constantine & Lockwood, Ltd., is a highly regarded trainer and consultant and co-author of Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design (Addison-Wesley, 1999). |
