Bridging the gap between user requirements and user interface design / Bainaiah Misiran

The important aspect of future software engineering techniques will be the
ability to seamlessly move from analysis to design. There are many welldefined
processes for evaluating usability of an interface once it has been
designed. One step in design process, however, has been oddly neglected:
the ways to transform user requirements into initial interface design. For that
reason, this study is carried out in order to reach two main things; identifying
the existing problems in transforming user requirements into user interface
design and from this, identify the ways to transform information gathered
about user requirements into the user interface. To achieve it, researcher
distributed questionnaires to IT companies as primary data to get a data.
The results indicate that there are many problems during the transformation
and some of them know how to solve the problems but they also don't know
how to overcome the problems. Mostly the problems identified are caused
from a poor user requirements and the user involvement in this transition is
important. Hopefully with conducting this study it can help to improve the
effectiveness in software development process.