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Example Use Cases & Views
A few example use cases and views to provide a starting point. Style-wise, the important things are that use cases identify an actor and an initial state and that they describe a stepwise interaction towards a particular success outcome. A use case should capture all the details that you think are important about a particular interaction. Views are somewhat like use cases except that they are not linear. Views simply describe the appearance of dynamic pages and describe the logic that is used to populate them.
Use Cases
Adding an Article
A content manager is logged into the site and on the publishing dashboard. They go to the add-item menu and select Article. They enter a title and enter the article content into the Body field. They may do this authoring in the visual editor, or they are likely pasting from another application. In the editing process they embed several images into the body section and select a feature image. They also tag the article with subject and location keywords. When they are done they submit the story for publishing.
Uploading an Image into the Repository
This use case is quite similar to "Adding an Article" however a JPG image is uploaded instead of the HTML body of an article.
Adding a Web Advertisement
An advertiser logs into the site and is on their dashboard, where they see a list of their currently running advertisements. They press a button to "Add new Ad" and they are taken to the form to create their ad. They select from several size options for their ad: (180x150, 300x240, tbd...) and upload their image.
Views
Article View
A public user of the site lands on an article page. They may have landed here through any one of several means, direct search engine link, clicking a link in an e-mail newsletter or by using the search/browse tools on this site. In the main body of the page, they see the complete text of the article. To the upper right, they see the cover of the image that this article appeared in, and that cover image is linked to that issue (TOC, order back issue, etc). They see tag clouds that shows all the keywords (locations and subject) for this article. Those keywords are links to the topic pages for those terms/places. To the right under the cover image, there is a list of related articles, sorted by strongest keyword matches first.
Browsing Articles by Topic
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