On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:54 AM, gail swanson <gail_swan...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Has anyone worked in a UML environment? How did you integrate your > practice into RUP or similar methodologies? Hi Gail. I'm a big fan of the UML (except I hate saying The UML :-) In my past life I had to do double duty creating UX documentation and System Requirements. Since the client of my documentation were developers and test using UML made my documentation easier for them to consume. IBM around 2003 were pushing a technique called User Engineering that used a technique called OVID (Object View and Interaction Design). It was all very interesting but it was also a lot of extra overhead. http://www.amazon.com/Designing-User-OVID-Dave-Robert/dp/1578701015 I think that understanding Use Case, Activity, Sequence (maybe) and Basic Class modeling is all you would need. A List Apart had some good articles on Use Case Modeling What’s the Problem?: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/whatstheproblem/ Use Cases Part II: Taming Scope: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/tamingscope/ If you wanted to by a book all you need is the Fowler's UML Distilled: http://www.amazon.com/UML-Distilled-Standard-Modeling-Language/dp/0321193687/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266302123&sr=8-1 There are some samples below of what I have used the UML for. I hope this helps. Bryce Johnson Tw: @brycej | http://powerpivotor.com USE CASE MODEL http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pI1BCZEGrLPre5D8qp1lOhrdJAf_4LvY4IZUgqzaIkGyYIlAxxArvryYsMFudSoPImoL5w74Z86l-PUU6m27G-Q/UseCase.png DOMAIN MODEL http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pwxDljU33rX0SbeEn1XiFkP5ZAfFZaIY3k_z5Cr-ZbEYP4O_MXO3OPcCq705A51XtRasimxuPbQMhIW6IZ9sufQ/DomainModel.png USER MODEL IN UML - this was not very successful, kinda a waste of time. http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pyq2tWEjLxZdnyFxbvp8thV20UGuiWVwZWsmk33eBOpjqDEZ_rhJdXSfk3p2tkzQw0SA4DOD-O3K0z1PQv-B0XA/mehUserModel.png SDLC with UX inserted. http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pyF-ppFZuXsedrk_ntXIXqQqT0BZKkA7fNjD0jMU6RoorCCM1sxSpokqwzqKga9-EYaqEJ9Yu4w3-dlisFbQ2Lw/SDLC-with-UX.png Visio XML file of the above images. http://cid-fc38e032fcead65b.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/UML-IxDA/UML-Samples.vdx Bryce Johnson Tw: @brycej | http://powerpivotor.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
