Research Article

A Case Study of User-Centred Design in Four Swiss RUP Projects

Table 2

Interview topics.

Topic Details

Introduction Project; informant’s role.
Requirements and use cases How were they defined? Who was involved? Check for accuracy.
User interface How were look and feel defined? Who was involved? Positive and negative influences; check for accuracy.
Testing What was tested? Goals of testing; time of testing; usability tests.
Personal assessment Relationship between RUP and UCD; amount of UCD; behaviour under time and budget pressure; relationship between clients and usability; involvement of end users.
Project management discipline Number of iterations; when were end users involved? Measurement of user satisfaction; measurement of client satisfaction.
Business modelling discipline Elaboration of requirements with clients and end users; on-site visits; same workers as in other disciplines?
Requirements discipline Ease of use as explicit requirement; elaborations with end users or clients; what are advantages and disadvantages of such a process? Different levels of requirements; explicit requirements for visual design of the UI.
Analysis and2 design discipline Which artifacts resulted from this discipline?
Implementation discipline The same employees as in other disciplines? Was implementation based on use cases? Prototypes.
Test discipline What was tested? Tests against requirements or against use cases? With end users? When was tested? Consequences of tests.
Configuration and change management discipline How was it handled? Decision processes; consideration of changes for the whole application.
Environment discipline UI guidelines; business modelling guidelines; use case modelling guidelines; reasons for guidelines; did people follow the guidelines?
Deployment discipline Education of the users; technical writer; client support.
Influences Management; technology; customer.