Comments on: How to create a user interface specification http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-create-a-user-interface-specification/ Helping business analysts become leaders and advance their careers. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Eric Provost http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-create-a-user-interface-specification/comment-page-1/#comment-4679 Eric Provost Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:39:25 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=821#comment-4679 Interesting article! We have actually implemented some tools and techniques within our BA team (working in a great web consulting company) to integrate use cases to wireframes & prototypes (made using Axure). For more complex websites (e-commerce) and web applications, it leads to interesting results. As for who should handle this wireframing task, I think that BAs are well positionned to capture client needs and prototype them. We work closely with the UX/design team for their feedback, but the BA is in charge of creating the UI (and the specs required to document business rules). Interesting article! We have actually implemented some tools and techniques within our BA team (working in a great web consulting company) to integrate use cases to wireframes & prototypes (made using Axure). For more complex websites (e-commerce) and web applications, it leads to interesting results.

As for who should handle this wireframing task, I think that BAs are well positionned to capture client needs and prototype them. We work closely with the UX/design team for their feedback, but the BA is in charge of creating the UI (and the specs required to document business rules).

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]]> By: Jim Willette http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-create-a-user-interface-specification/comment-page-1/#comment-1117 Jim Willette Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:17:51 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=821#comment-1117 I like your idea of a UI spec "calling" a use case. For me the user interface is a gray area shared between requirements and design. My preference is to leave design to designers and requirements to analysts, but in practice both must contribute for an application to be to successful. A good BA has at least some sense of what the user experience should be. I like your idea of a UI spec “calling” a use case. For me the user interface is a gray area shared between requirements and design. My preference is to leave design to designers and requirements to analysts, but in practice both must contribute for an application to be to successful. A good BA has at least some sense of what the user experience should be.

]]> By: Thomas Memmel http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-create-a-user-interface-specification/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 Thomas Memmel Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:49:17 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=821#comment-1096 Hi Laura I just found your blog and the entry on UI specification. Maybe you like to visit my blog, too. We could share some thoughts as I already wrote several papers on UI specification practice and the according tools. Thomas Hi Laura

I just found your blog and the entry on UI specification. Maybe you like to visit my blog, too. We could share some thoughts as I already wrote several papers on UI specification practice and the according tools.

Thomas

]]> By: Laura Brandau http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/how-to-create-a-user-interface-specification/comment-page-1/#comment-779 Laura Brandau Thu, 14 May 2009 13:44:12 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=821#comment-779 Thanks for your comments, Harris. I defer the claim to expertise if for no other reason that it allows me to put some tentative ideas out there without having to be "right"! :-) But I do agree that thinking through the rules around how the UI flows drives usability (or it's converse), whether you bring formal UX expertise to the activity or not. Laura Thanks for your comments, Harris. I defer the claim to expertise if for no other reason that it allows me to put some tentative ideas out there without having to be “right”! :-)

But I do agree that thinking through the rules around how the UI flows drives usability (or it’s converse), whether you bring formal UX expertise to the activity or not.

Laura

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