Overview

This International Standard describes the Common Industry Format (CIF) family for the documentation of user requirements. This specifies the content and provides a model format of user requirements documentation. Specification of management needs, as well as other stakeholder need, is considered to the extent that they directly impact on user needs. The purpose of the User Needs Report and the intended users of the information are identified, as well as the relationship of user needs to other outputs of human-centred design. The target audience of this standard includes all users specified in the scope of ISO/IEC 25000. The User Needs Report is applicable to software and hardware systems, products or services (excluding generic products, such as a display screen or keyboard). User Needs Report is relevant to existing and new products, services and systems. The content elements are intended to be used as part of system-level documentation resulting from development processes such as those in ISO 9241-210 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 process standards. This International standard does not prescribe any kind of method, lifecycle or process. The responsible committee for this document is NA 023-00-04-05 GAK "Gemeinschaftsarbeitskreis NAErg/NIA: Benutzungsschnittstellen") ("Joint working group NAErg/NIA: User interfaces") at DIN.

Document: references other documents

Document: referenced in other documents

Responsible national committee

NA 023-00-04-05 GAK - Joint working group NAErg/NIA: User-interface  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 122/WG 5 - Ergonomics of human-system interaction  

Responsible international committee

ISO/TC 159/SC 4 - Ergonomics of human-system interaction