MAKING USE - A DESIGN REPRESENTATION

In analyzing and designing systems and software, a better means of talking about how they may transform and/or be constrained by the contexts of user activity is needed. A direct approach is to explicitly envision and document typical and significant user activities early and continuingly in the development process. Such descriptions are often called 'scenarios'. In this article, a method is surveyed and illustrated in which scenarios provide an integration of task analysis and design environment - a basic level of design representation.