The Texas company eDoorways has been making headline news recently with their innovative concept for bringing the “Town Square” interpretation of social networking to the American public.
If successful, this unique concept will have the ability to recreate social networking by bringing companies and people together in a trustworthy environment that will make lives easier and bring added peace of mind.
The goal of eDoorways is something bigger than MySpace or Facebook. eDoorways wants to bring the world together, but the process of developing a web service offering first involves envisioning the brand. To conquer this task, eDoorways has employed two software development processes that are standards in the industry. These two devices are called “Use Case” and “Wire Frames”.
Use cases are utilized by project developers to define who is going to use the brand and how they are going to use it. Use cases are developed for each category of user, such as consumers, businesses, system administrators, and so on. For a comprehensive site such as eDoorways, there will be hundreds of use cases to define user experience. While the process of developing use cases is difficult and time consuming, it is expected to pay great dividends.
After completion of use cases has been developed, the next step will be to create “Wire Frames”. Wire frames are an attempt to translate the processes and capabilities defined by use cases into an initial screen appearance. Wire frames offer the consumer a first look for the anticipated service offering. While wire frames offer an “unfinished look”, they provide a crucial step in the grand scheme of things because they allow developers to see how the brand’s service offering might appear.
Once a level of satisfaction is achieved regarding the functionality of the brand and its correct capture by use cases and wire frames, the next step in the development process involves creating a first version of user screens that have the look and feel of a real web service offering. Currently, eDoorways has 133 user screens created for their Phase I service offering, and these will be examined in focus groups in the near future.
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