Software redesign for usability: A case study
J. Alfredo Sánchez, Adickes · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1993
In an ideal software development environment, the use of a programming language such as C allows developers the ability to create an application that matches the requirements and needs of a client. Recent breakthroughs and advances in software design and graphical user interfaces, however, make it much more difficult to justify, from either a cost or time perspective, developing an application completely from scratch using such a language. By using commercial development packages (prototyping development tools), developers are freed from many of the time consuming tasks that would ordinarily be involved in creating an application, and are able instead to concentrate on what should be the two most important areas of an application, what it should do and how it should look. This poster session illustrates the significant benefits that can be achieved by creating an application using a commercial data base package with a graphical user interface developer along with a multidisciplinary team of developers. The primary emphasis of the display focuses on the ability of the developer to incorporate human factors considerations to ensure that the program is both easy to use and easy to change, given additional client inputs and requests.