Method Used to Design WWW Information

I could not say that I followed the process through perfectly; however, it influenced, guided and directed my thought, particularly during the earliest development. After defining the parts of the document and representing the parts in the graphic, the thought of describing searching was added. After that, much of the development has been through gradual observation and iteration over and over and over. I'm not sure if I've loaded the file into an editor 200 times and changed or added something, but it's possible!

How the parts of Essential Modeling relate

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| Use case or set of  |        facilitates the        |                 |
| closely related use |<-------identification of------| User Role Model |
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| Each Use Context |
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| Detailed User   |                      The resulting presentation
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Each of the objects in the diagram represents elements of each phase of the project and also the resulting model based on all of the same types of elements. For example, the individual use cases are represented by the "use case" object in the diagram, and the same object represents the Use Case Model that is made up of all of the individual use cases. "Object" here means the labeled parts of the diagram above.

"A user role model is simply a list of identified user roles along with their defining or distinguishing characteristics."

"The essential model presents an ideal design target."

"A use context model is a collection of abstract user interface elements representing needed or desired capabilities - materials, tools, and work areas - to be provided by a system in support of one or more use cases."

Questions asked during the design process

"What is the essential purpose of such an applet?"

"Identify user roles that imply differing needs and distinct patterns of usage."

• Searching for partially remembered information.
• Trying to find information about a subject.
• Trying to find information about an information object, such as a book, company, or person when an exact name is known.
• To learn what search options there are.
• To learn how to use search options.
• To learn how to write the search so that it is what is intended.
• To find out what information is available from this site, what the present information is.
• Frequent use because the search options are exactly what is needed.
• One-time use for supplementing knowledge.
• Occasional use due to infrequent need.
• Occasional use due to not finding info in other ways.

Starting with the user roles, identify essential use cases.

• Key word search, either actual or pointing to where search can be done.
• Logic terms and meaning.
• Phrase search.
• List search methods.
• List applications.
• Using applications.
• Introduce service.
• Main emphasis.
• List parts.
• Highlight and emphasize uniqueness.
• Show how to use service.
• Show how service differs from other options.

Derive use contexts from the essential use case model.

• Graphic showing all that is here with descriptive list.
  • Indicate most significant option.
  • Emphasize uniqueness, difference.
  • Description that shows how to use the service.
• List of ways to search for information.
• List of keyword search sites allowing logic.
• List of phrase search sites.
• List of simple keyword search sites.
• Graphic of how to use some search sites.
• List of examples of logic.
• Graphic depiction of logic.