Rhino Users Model

Rhino implements policies that maintain a consistent look and feel across all Rhino-based applications and that govern the end user's interaction with Rhino-based applications. These policies form the Rhino users model.

What do we mean by users model?

What makes system administration difficult

This section explains where the Rhino users model came from.

The Rhino team identified possible end users for Rhino-based applications: Unix-illiterate bright professionals, such as animators and graphics artists, and systems administrators who seek tools to improve their efficiency. We interviewed these people using techniques described in Analyzing UI Requirements and thereby learned what makes system administration difficult:

Rhino principles of interaction

Based on the above findings, the Rhino team developed the following principles of interaction:

The Rhino users model in action

The Rhino principles of interaction have been embedded in the Rhino infrastructure: