The Enzyme Portal: a case study in applying user-centred design methods in bioinformatics.

ABSTRACT: User-centred design (UCD) is a type of user interface design in which the needs and desires of users are taken into account at each stage of the design process for a service or product; often for software applications and websites. Its goal is to facilitate the design of software that is both useful and easy to use. To achieve this, you must characterise users' requirements, design suitable interactions to meet their needs, and test your designs using prototypes and real life scenarios.For bioinformatics, there is little practical information available regarding how to carry out UCD in practice. To address this we describe a complete, multi-stage UCD process used for creating a new bioinformatics resource for integrating enzyme information, called the Enzyme Portal (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/en

SUBMITTER: de Matos P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3623738 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature