Re: [Usability] FOSA ideas

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:35, Alan Horkan wrote:

> Calum, should we try and write this up as a more structured "feature
> matrix" or suchlike?

Certainly need to start collecting all this somewhere, I've only read a
fraction of the mails so far and my head hurts already :)  I'd volunteer
but I'm about to disappear on vacation for a couple of weeks so it's
probably better if somebody else takes care of it...

It needn't be an actual matrix, I suspect that might get a bit
unmanageable.  The Isaacs & Walendowski book that Havoc and I have been
shamelessly touting suggests a simple list of the tasks broken down into
the four categories (FBM, FBF, OBM and OBF), with each task marked as
"core functionality", "important functionality" or "nice-to-have
functionality".  See p127 for an example :)

(Where this is all going, of course, is that the FBM tasks should be
highly visible in the UI and require the fewest clicks/keystrokes,
followed by FBF, OBM, and finally OBF tasks, which would be the most
hidden and require the most clicks/keystrokes).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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