Tutorial: Create Method Content

Exercise: Create Roles

1. Make sure you are in the Authoring perspective.

 

2. Within My Content Package, right-click on the Roles folder.

 

3. Highlight New and then click Role.

 

4. In the Name field enter "my_user_interface_designer".

 

5. In the Presentation Name field enter "My UI Designer".

 

6. In the Brief Description field type the following

The User-Interface Designer coordinates the design of the user interface. User-Interface Designers are also involved in gathering usability requirements and prototyping candidate user-interface designs to meet those requirements.

Tip: There are 3 different ways to create the text above for the new role:

 

• Directly, by typing it manually in the Composer editor.
• By copying from another similar role and then modify using the editors (e.g. user_interface_designer).
• By copying from an html source such as the tutorial you are reading.

 

7. Try using the Rich Text Editor to edit the Main Description. You can open the Rich Text Editor for any item that has an Open Rich Text Editor icon:

   The user-interface designer role is not responsible for implementing the user interface. Instead, this role focuses on the design and the "visual shaping" of the user interface by the following:

   • Capturing requirements on the user interface, including usability requirements.
   • Building user-interface prototypes.
   • Involving other stakeholders of the user interface, such as end-users, in usability reviews and use testing sessions.
   • Reviewing and providing the appropriate feedback on the final implementation of the user interface, as created by other developers; that is, designers and implementers.

   Note: Text copied from Microsoft® Word documents contains large amounts of HTML formatting codes which may cause formatting problems when used in Composer. It is safer to copy text into Notepad and save it as text before importing into the Editor.

 

8. Click the WorkProducts tab; make this new role responsible for the my_navmap and my_user_interface_prototype artifacts that you previously created.

 

9. Click the Add button. This displays a selection dialog where you can select the Work Products to add.

 

10. Once you have selected the appropriate Work Products, click OK. The work products you selected appear in the Responsible for: panel.

    Note that selected elements in an Add/Remove section display both the element name and the path to that element, the Plug-in name, and package name.

 

11. Click the Preview tab to view the newly created role and then save by closing the editor.