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Business Performer-Centered Design of User Interfaces is a new design methodology that adopts business process (BP) definition and a business performer perspective for managing the life cycle of user interfaces of enterprise systems. In this methodology, when the organization has a business process culture, the business processes of an organization are firstly defined according to a traditional methodology for this kind of artifact. These business processes are then transformed into a series of task models that represent the interactive parts of the business processes that will ultimately lead to interactive systems. When the organization has its enterprise systems, but not yet its business processes modeled, the user interfaces of the systems help derive tasks models, which are then used to derive the business processes. The double linking between a business process and a task model, and between a task model and a user interface model makes it possible to ensure traceability of the artifacts in multiple paths and enables a more active participation of business performers in analyzing the resulting user interfaces. In this paper, we outline how a human-perspective is used tied to a model-driven perspective.
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Sousa, K., Vanderdonckt, J. (2011). Business Performer-Centered Design of User Interfaces. In: Hussmann, H., Meixner, G., Zuehlke, D. (eds) Model-Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14562-9_7
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