A User Centred Website Development Approach

Abstract

Website development activities are a growing aspect of the IT work within many organisations. However, there appears to be few methodologies or frameworks for website development currently in existence, and numerous researchers have commented that the majority of website development work appears to be done in an ad hoc manner. In this paper, a user centred website development approach is described, and a case study in a UK University department is provided to demonstrate and evaluate the approach.

Teaching web site design: science or art?

“…Carter (2003) stated that computer science students need to be taught how to visually communicate the services or functionality of a software system. The next topic was the use of web site user requirements diagrams to formally capture the natural language descriptions of web site requirements which typically constitute the start of any web site development project (Taylor et al, 2002). Typically this could be viewed as a purely scientific activity, since the purpose of the diagrams is to break down the requirements in an engineering fashion.…”

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“…Abstract modeling techniques have been used to define needs for web-based software development processes abstractly; for example, use cases and scenarios have been applied to functional model requirements. [3] According to the study, 400 OTOPentrepreneurs in Thailand expressed frustration with the inability to create their own product packaging. As a result, the manufacturing cost is relatively high.…”