[Sigia-l] "Usage-to-Platform Requirements Process"

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Intel® strategic marketing groups conduct research that, when combined with
other secondary sources and analysis, identifies promising usage models for
Intel technology and products. Historically, usage model descriptions were
handed off to "platform" architecture and planning teams, whose task was to
identify the requirements necessary for the processor, chipset, software,
and other components needed to enable the usage models. However, platform
teams had difficulty gleaning actionable engineering requirements directly
from the usage model descriptions, since the descriptions did not include
all of the elements that make up fully defined usage models.

In 2004, Intel's User Centered Design (UCD) Group proposed and implemented
the "Usage-to-Platform Requirements" (U2PR) program. The goal of this
program is to discover usage requirements and to establish a foundation for
the desired user experience inherent in the usage models. This is
accomplished by analyzing and refining the usage models through a process
consisting of user research, existing product evaluation, use case
development, and usage requirements writing

<http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2007/v11i1/3-requirements/1-abstract.ht
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This sounds a bit too formal and jargon-laden for me (Venn diagrams to boot
:-) but has anyone read/considered this?

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Ziya

Usability >  Simplify the Solution
Design >  Simplify the Problem