RE: ucd digest: January 05, 2005

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The best one I've found is "Writing Effective Use Cases" by Alistair
Cockburn.  You might also consider "Advanced Use Case Modeling" by Frank
Armour and Granville Miller.  

Hope this helps,

Charles

Charles D. Smith 
NDCHealth - Pharmacy Product Development 
Office: 404.728.2477  |  Mobile: 678.362.3966  |  Fax: 404.728.2282 


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UCD Digest for Wednesday, January 05, 2005.

1. Role Names Question
2. Re: Role Names Question
3. Best getting started books on Use Cases?

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Subject: Role Names Question
From: "William Hudson" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:05:32 -0000
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Happy New Year to all (where applicable<g>)!

I was interested to find out if folks used environment names as part of
user role names where the environment has some significant impact on
user needs or behaviour? An example that comes to mind is
SupermarketTillOperator versus RestaurantTillOperator (in the US read
"cash register" for "till").

Regards,

William Hudson
Syntagm Ltd
Design for Usability
US Toll Free 1-866-SYNTAGM
UK 01235-522859
World +44-1235-522859
mailto:[email protected]
http://www.syntagm.co.uk
http://www.designforusability.com

Web Design for Usability Tutorial/Workshop, London 11 May 2005
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Subject: Re: Role Names Question
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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 06:26:22 EST
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The descriptor level depends on the need to distinguish within a nested  
environment.  In William's example there might need to distinguish between
till 
operators at a motorway service station within a single franchise
operation.  
If the site was broken into separate administrative units  (shop, filling 
station, restaurant, cafe, lavatories, parking and so on) then  the
personnel 
would be nested into these sets and would not need to be  identified except
as a 
role within a set making the superdescriptor  redundant.
 
Terence Freedman
 
In a message dated 06/01/2005 10:30:58 GMT Standard Time,  
[email protected] writes:

Happy  New Year to all (where applicable<g>)!

I was interested to find  out if folks used environment names as part of
user role names where the  environment has some significant impact on
user needs or behaviour? An  example that comes to mind is
SupermarketTillOperator versus  RestaurantTillOperator (in the US read
"cash register" for  "till").

Regards,

William Hudson
Syntagm Ltd
Design for  Usability
US Toll Free 1-866-SYNTAGM
UK 01235-522859
World  +44-1235-522859
mailto:[email protected]
http://www.syntagm.co.uk
http://www.designforusability.com

Web  Design for Usability Tutorial/Workshop, London 11 May 2005
In collaboration  with the British HCI Group and UK UPA
Full details and online  booking:
http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/webdesign.shtml

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Subject: Best getting started books on Use Cases?
From: "Myhill, Carl S (GE Energy)" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:19:38 -0500
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Hi William and all,

I'm a bit of a devotee to Cooper's personas but would like to get into Use
Case stuff too - what are the best starting out books?

Thanks

Carl

PS Happy new year



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