Scenario-based Design of Flexible Hypermedia Learning Environments

Software development processes need to cover usability relevant information. Although several methods have been proposed how to collect usability relevant data, there is a lack of suggestions on how to deal with this information and how to ensure that it is available in a proper way at the relevant stages of the software development process. This paper proposes a framework to store and retrieve usability relevant data using object-oriented OOA and OOD methods together with scenario-based analysis. As this framework combines advantages of all these methods, uses a XML-based, relational database with server pages and networking, it is an ideal repository for distributed design teams.