Change the Constraint, Change the Guidelines

From a usability perspective are we letting inertia stop us from going and searching for the real new issues which constrain web sites from achieving their goal, or are we moving on, forgetting the last war, and actively out looking for that new constraint and seeking to write the new rules for a world where broadband is ubiquitous?

Anderson, David J. UIdesign (2004). Design>Web Design>Usability

Extending FDD for UI: Implementing Feature Driven Development on Presentation Layer Projects

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. I was fortunate to have worked on the team, together with Stephen Palmer, Phil Bradley and Paul Szego, as we developed the FDD method and used it to deliver a very large project. So far the published material on FDD focuses on its use with the business layer piece of the system. Back in 1998 we also adapted the method to accommodate presentation and system interface layers. However, the early implementations for these other layers were never wholely satisfactory. Over the last 2 years I have continued to refine and develop FDD for use with presentation layers. This paper will set out my latest thinking on FDD for UI.

Anderson, David J. UIdesign (2001). Design>Web Design>User Centered Design

Extending UML for User Interface

This paper seeks to set out my current position and opinion on how the Unified Modeling Language might be extended to accommodate the modeling of interaction design and user interface design for the purpose of facilitating a user centered design process. 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.

Anderson, David J. UIdesign (2000). Design>User Interface>UML

Lean Interaction Design and Implementation

Lean UI development in Feature Driven Development is achieved through right-first-time implementation of the interaction designer's intent using David Harel's Statechart notation to model the interaction design.

Anderson, David J. UIdesign (2003). Design>Web Design>Project Management>Interaction Design

Link Color Déjà Vu

It seems that Jakob Nielsen is back grinding on one of his old organs with the current AlertBox and the tune is 'standard link colors improve usability'. No one can blame Jakob for recycling old material. My goodness, he has been publishing a weekly column for almost 10 years, things are bound to come around again and again.

Anderson, David J. UIdesign (2004). Design>Web Design>Usability>Color