Conceptual Methodology of Developing the User Interface

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The purpose of the experiment was to carry out a project and build an applicationaccording to stages of IDI and verify the results. As a result, IDI should givesoftware with interface integrated with marketing image of the customer and UIcharacterised by high usability level.Three students of the Faculty of Computer Science and Management of WroclawUniversity of Technology took part in the experiment. The subject of experimentalproject was to build an application that will help students to sign in toobligatory and optional courses. The students created thirteen user’s stories andseven of them were implemented in two iterations. At the end of each iteration,usability tests were performed. The tests included a list of tasks to perform anda questionnaire to fill in. The questionnaire had eight questions about visualaspect of the created UI. After two iterations, the summary test was applied inorder to evaluate the tasks, which were identified as often performed.The results of all tests were the basis of tentative evaluation of IDI methodology.The evaluation of the visual aspect of the interface was always between 6 and 7,in seven-point scale (1 means disappointment and 7 — full satisfaction of performinga task). 80% of all tasks included in the test were evaluated by the users as“very easy to do” and there was no value lower then “neither easy nor difficult”.It is very important that marks given in the second iteration were higher thanthe marks given by the users in the first one.Despite the very high evaluation of the experimental project, a tentative evaluationof methodology IDI cannot be done. The reasons for this are: the projectwas carried out by one person, the application was build by the creator of methodologyIDI, the subject of the experimental project was well known by thecreator, and not all user’s stories were implemented. The evaluation of the methodologycannot by done after only one realised project. One needs to createmany applications and analyse the results, in order to be able to evaluate themethodology.5. CONCLUSIONThe goal of the work was to propose a methodology, which would fulfil the requirementsof marketing trend [11, 7] and give software with high usability of UI.Requirements formulated by Ridderstrale and Nordstrom impose the creation ofmarketing image of the company, employees and products as a whole. The way
to distinguish one company from many similar to it is to compete referring tofeelings and emotions. The company should tell a story and work, employ andfire people in the rhythm of the story. This trend requires from methodology ofcreating software to build application integrated with the company’s image.Existing solutions of creating software like USDP and COOAD have been usedgaining a lot of success for many years. USDP concentrates to build optimalarchitecture for the project. But the main disadvantage of USDP is a very rarecontact with the client; they are limited to a few approval meetings. All changesin functionality are laborious, because the project needs to be redesigned andre-implementedCOOAD is a methodology that should give UI which provides the user with effective,satisfying and efficient way to perform tasks with the help of the application.The main disadvantage of COOAD is a lack of hints about how to create a graphicdesign of the user interface that will be integrated with marketing image ofthe company. COOAD is also oriented on desktop applications. It is troublesomein the case of web pages.The reviewed methodologies do not fulfil requirements of marketing trend describedin [11] and [7], but they are a starting point for a new one. The newapproach — IDI combines COOAD’s features with 12 archetypes and star analysiselements; methods of designing graphical interface, integrated with company’smarketing image. The practices and recommendations of XP lie in the base ofproject implementation.IDI is divided into six stages that include all necessary information to understandthe purpose of each of them. IDI puts emphasis on building software, which ischaracterised with high usability level and graphic design integrated with company’smarketing image.For the tentative evaluation of the methodology, the experimental project wascarried out. The visual aspect of the application was evaluated very high in usabilitytests, performed in the end of each iteration. Despite of the high evaluationof the project in usability test they cannot evaluate tentatively IDI. The Evaluationof a methodology can be done only after analysing results of many projectsperformed using IDI approach. The experiment is an example, pattern, how tobuild software using IDI methodology.In this paper an attempt to create a new methodology was undertaken. Thismethodology should fulfil requirements of marketing trend presented in [7] and[11]. Stages of methodology IDI are the first step to achieve that goal. Besides
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