Tutorial: 34. Documenting UI Designs: Practical Techniques for Conveying Design Ideas

Paul McInerney, IBM Canada

Benefits
You will learn how to document user interface designs to simplify implementation and evaluation. You will learn several techniques and when to use each.

Origins
This is a new tutorial for CHI 98.

Features

• appreciate the need for good UI documentation
• become aware of the wide array of available techniques
• learn to use selected techniques
• learn to address UI documentation from within the context of a project

Audience
User interface designers interested in improving how they specify/document their designs. Experience designing user interfaces is assumed.

Presentation
Lecture with hands-on exercises.

Instructor
Paul McInerney is a User Interface Designer at IBM. Over the past decade, he has worked at several firms and as a usability consultant. He has authored several publications and has used all of the techniques in this tutorial.

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• 4. Planning and Implementing User-Centred Design (Sunday)
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