Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach
Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach
Usability Basics for Software Developers
IEEE Software
Usability-Supporting Architectural Patterns
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Enabling Reuse-Based Software Development of Large-Scale Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Guidelines for Eliciting Usability Functionalities
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A glass box design: making the impact of usability on software development visible
INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part II
Bringing usability concerns to the design of software architecture
EHCI-DSVIS'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Engineering Human Computer Interaction and Interactive Systems
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Usability is increasingly recognized as a quality attribute that one has to design for. The conventional alternative is to measure usability on a finished system and improve it. The disadvantage of this approach is, obviously, that the cost associated with implementing usability improvements in a fully implemented system are typically very high and prohibit improvements with architectural impact. In this tutorial, we present the insights gained, techniques developed and lessons learned in the EU-IST project STATUS (SofTware Architectures That supports USability). These include a forward-engineering perspective on usability, a technique for specifying usability requirements, a method for assessing software architectures for usability and, finally, for improving software architectures for usability. The topics are extensively illustrated by examples and experiences from many industrial cases.