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Subject:Re: Help! green screens on the web From:Michael Collier <mcollier -at- arlut -dot- utexas -dot- edu> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:34:34 -0600
"Roberts, Dan" <RobertsD -at- bis -dot- adp -dot- com> wrote:
> Right now, what's got me most stumped is coming up with some sort of
> structured (info map ish) format to dump this information into.
The structure will be determined by the results of doing a task analysis
of the system. You need to find out how the users will be using the
system to accomplish whatever their tasks are.
> If this were
> a more GUI-type application, I wouldln't have as much problem as I'm
> having--but the green-screen thing feels like hitting a brick wall.
That's the deceptive thing about GUIs - they may look like they are
designed around how users go about their business, but not always.
Documenting a GUI for a system is not the same as documenting the
system.
> Any and all help, suggestions, advice, samples are appreciated.
Any samples you get are going to reflect somemone else's analysis or
approach to a different system. You need to go back and find out what
the users will be doing with the system, and start from there.
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