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specication. ey suggest that this UI focus might be a result of the team’s expertise or
orientation, as one of the participants had “undoubtedly expertise in user interaction.”
But it is equally feasible that this was just their initial design activity and that the issues
they identied (Christiaans and Almendra) caused them to defer other design decisions
until they could refer back to their client. AmberPoint’s constant focus on the UI contrasts
strongly with the other two groups, who focused on data dictionary modeling in the ...