Bridging users´ values and requirements to architecture

The paper describes a process for bridging from users´ values and goal oriented requirements to architecture via architecture patterns. User values, such as privacy, sociability, creativity, etc are introduced and their implications for system architecture are explained. Many architectural implications are common to several user values so architecture patterns are proposed to collate these as high level requirements for components which can then be related to NFRs as well as user values. The process of analysing user values through to design of system architecture is illustrated with a case study in health informatics.