1. Design Exploration J. Michael Moore michael@csdl.tamu.edu http://csdl.tamu.edu/~michael/

2. Overview Issues Approach Analysis Tool Questions

3. The Importance of Requirements Requirements define and measure the success of a system Even when a program does “what” it is supposed to do it still does not meet user expectations Getting the “real requirements” is hard Issues

4. Communication Issues Communication problems often the cause of inadequate requirements Terminology / jargon mismatch between end users and software developers Communicating via an artifact can help Face-to-face communication preferred but not always possible Issues

5. Approach Overview Issues Analysis Tool Questions

6. Design Exploration Approach Allow probable end users to create mock-ups of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for a program and augment with textual descriptions Take advantage of the “Language of the GUI” Allow person to choose most comfortable mode of communication Approach

7. Processing GUI Construction and Textual Argumentation Stored Designs Analysis Tool Analysis Approach

8. DE Builder Approach

9. DE Builder Approach

10. Overview Issues Analysis Tool Questions

11. Dictionary Maintain each term used and pointers to where the term occurs A modified full text index Analysis

12. Design Components Widgets Groups of Widgets Windows Analysis

13. Spatial Parsing Vertical List Composite Vertical List

14. Similarity Represent design components with Term Vectors Compare design components’ text with cosine similarity. Analysis

15. Approach Overview Issues Analysis Tool Questions

16. Right Click Navigation Tool

17. Dictionary Tool

18. Search Overlay Tool

19. Approach Overview Issues Analysis Tool Questions

20. J. Michael Moore michael@csdl.tamu.edu http://csdl.tamu.edu/~michael/ Questions