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Rieman, John, Davies, Susan and Roberts, Jonathan (1992): A Visit to a Very Small Database: Lessons from Managing the Review of Papers Submitted for CHI'91. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John and Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 471-478. Available online

Many of the principles that guide user-interface design for commercial systems do not scale down to simple applications developed on personal computers. These "very small systems" are typically designed within a high-level application such as a database or a spreadsheet. The entire development process may take no more than a few days. In this restricted context, iterative design and usability testing are unaffordable luxuries, while detailed task analysis and early focus on users fail because the task and users will not coalesce until the system is in place. We describe our experiences with developing and using a very small system. We present suggestions for successful design in similar situations.

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Publication period:1992-1992
Publication count:1
Number of co-authors:2



Productive colleagues

Jonathan Roberts's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

John Rieman:10
Susan Davies:3


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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Susan Davies:1
John Rieman:1

 

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Software design is the act of determining the user's experience with a piece of software. It has nothing to do with how the code works inside, or how big or small the code is. The designer's task is to specify completely and unambiguously the user's whole experience.

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