Tyner Blain – Five Years and Going Strong!

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Hooray! Tyner Blain is well into its fifth year, and I’m thrilled to say, going strong. The Tyner Blain blog turns 5 tomorrow – on Nov 24th 2010! Thanks so much to everyone who comes here to share, learn, teach, critique, and read!

Top five usability blunders (and fixes)

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Five easy steps to alienating your users with bad usability Fail to simplify a comprehensive interface so that new users can quickly climb past the suck threshold. Build an inconsistent UI layout or interaction design that varies throughout the application, creating a sense of dissonance for the users. Interrupt the […]

CRUDdy use cases and Shakespeare

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CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) is an acronym used to refer to a set of mundane, important, and indirect (if not implicit) requirements or use cases. To create a report on orders, you have to first create the orders and retrieve them. Further, the ability to update (edit) and delete […]

Use Case Series: Formal Use Case

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This is the classic use case as described by someone who talks about Software Engineering. All of the training classes (other than Agile classes) that I’ve been to teach formal use case development as a component in a system of requirements management.