https://lucaspardue.com/categories/state-machine/ Recent content in State-Machine on Lucas Pardue - Bits && Pieces Hugo en-us Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://lucaspardue.com/2014/04/22/uml-modelling-user-interfaces-part-1-hierarchy-and-navigation/ Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://lucaspardue.com/2014/04/22/uml-modelling-user-interfaces-part-1-hierarchy-and-navigation/ <p>This is the first post in a series that looks at the modelling of User Interface (UI) related software using UML.</p> <p>The main purpose of the post is to explore how we effectively model the navigation of a tree-like hierarchy, especially when considering the premise &ldquo;In a tree structure there is one and only one path from any point to any other point&rdquo;.</p> <p>The tl;dr is that UML does not necessarily have the ability to represent UI concepts of hierarchy and navigation effectively.</p>