UML and Exploratory Prototyping for Designing Interactive Systems: Method and Applications

摘要

This paper introduces an easy-to-use method for improving the design of interactive applications. It is based on a UML business model which contains sequence diagrams for human-system-interaction. According to the model, mock-ups of the system's GUI are created and connected by hyperlinks, enabling users to execute the scenarios. The paper describes the method and illustrates its use in three small case studies. The method enables early user involvement, vision sharing of users and developers, and supports incremental development.