Chapter 53

Scenario-Based Design

Mary Beth Rosson and John M. Carroll
Virginia Tech

 

Outline

The Basic Idea

A Simple Example

Why Scenario-Based Design?

Scenarios Are Concrete But Rough

Scenarios Maintain an Orientation to People and Their Needs

Scenarios Are Evocative, Raising Questions at Many Levels

A Framework for Scenario-Based Design

Requirements Analysis

Activity Design

Information Design

Interaction Design

Usability Evaluation

Scenario-Based Iterative Design

Scenarios Throughout the System Life Cycle

Current Challenges

References

 

Figures

Figure 53.1:An overview of the scenario-based design frame- work. Scenarios serve as a central representation throughout the development cycle, first describing the goals and concerns of current use, and then being successively transformed and refined through an iterative design and evaluation process (from Rosson & Carroll,2001b).HCI human–computer interaction.

Figure 53.2:Scenarios have diverse uses throughout system development life cycle. UI = user interface.