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User Interface

Explore the intersection of BA work and UI design, which can involve prototyping, wire-framing, user interface specifications, or collaborating with UI designers.

What Actually Goes in a Functional Specification?

by Tony Heap on November 23, 2011 · 11 comments

in Requirements Analysis,Requirements Specifications,User Interface

There’s a lot of information on the Interweb about how to write a functional specification (FS for short, aka software requirements specification, system specification, product specification), including a fair few articles here on Bridging the Gap. Adriana Beal’s article earlier this year explains why writing a Software Requirements Specification is a valuable analyst skill, and Doug [...]

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What to focus on in a wireframe

by Laura Brandenburg on November 16, 2009 · 16 comments

in User Interface

When pulling together requirements for a new software system I almost always focus on creating user interface wireframes. I use wireframes or mockups at different points of the requirements elicitation and definition process, as I wrote about in “Using wireframes or prototypes to elicit, analyze, and validate software requirements”. Many business analysts balk at wireframes. [...]

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Using wireframes or prototypes to elicit, analyze, and validate software requirements

by Laura Brandenburg on May 18, 2009 · 18 comments

in Requirements Analysis,Requirements Elicitation,Requirements Validation,User Interface

My recent post on user interface specifications created some interesting commentary on prototyping vs. specifying. From the perspective of publishing blog posts, writing about UI specs before prototyping put the cart before the horse. In normal project work prototyping or wire-framing activities actually come before any sort of user interface specification work. As Harris Lloyd-Levy [...]

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How to create a user interface specification

by Laura Brandenburg on May 11, 2009 · 34 comments

in User Interface

A long, long time ago while working on a web-based product, a colleague of mine came up with this idea of writing a user interface or screen specification. The purpose of this requirements specification is to detail out the rules behind a specific page.  Sure, this is more “implementation” than “requirements” but the fact is [...]

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