Activity: Develop User-Interface Guidelines

Roles and Activities > Analyst Role Set > User-Interface Designer > Develop User-Interface Guidelines

Purpose To develop user-interface guidelines.
Steps Tailor the user interface guidelines Capture decisions
Input Artifacts: Development Case Tools User-Interface Guidelines	Resulting Artifacts: User-Interface Guidelines
Role: User-Interface Designer

Workflow Details:

Environment

Prepare Guidelines for an Iteration

Tailor the User-Interface Guidelines

Before you start to create the user interface, you should create project-specific guidelines for the task. You may have to tailor the user-interface guidelines, to cover the areas that are relevant for the type of user interface you will develop. See section "Tailoring" in the User-Interface Guidelines for more information.

The user-interface guidelines should for example state how to use windows, how to use the visual dimensions when visualizing objects within the windows, and how to exploit the various facilities of the window management system in use. Refer to the Guidelines: User Interface (General) for examples on general user-interface guidelines.

Capture Decisions

Document in the User-Interface Guidelines artifact, all decisions that you make regarding any guidelines and strategies for user-interface modeling and design.

Rational Unified Process