Mapping to the UX Model
Formalizing the user experience in a UML model is one way to establish this contract in a way that is understandable by the creative teams, which tend to be less formally trained in computer science. UML is visual enough for many nontechnical members to understand yet formal enough to have significant semantic value. The other advantage of a UML-based expression of the user experience is that it is possible for the engineering teams to establish and to maintain mappings directly between use case and design models to the UX model.
The mappings are captured in class diagrams that contain UX screens and design model classes with dependency relationships connecting them. These diagrams show which Web page classes realize which ...
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