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Approaches to User Interface Development

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This paper discusses problems associated with modern user interfaces, analyzes interfaces built on the implementation paradigm, identifies the weaknesses of this paradigm, estimates some existing methodologies for interface development, and justifies the use of metaphoric or idiomatic methodologies when creating or improving user interfaces.

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  1. Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), Volokolamskoe sh. 4, 125993, Moscow, Russia

    V. N. Lukin & Yu. B. Chechikov

  2. Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Leningradskii pr. 49, 125167, Moscow, Russia

    A. L. Dzyubenko & Yu. B. Chechikov

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Lukin, V.N., Dzyubenko, A.L. & Chechikov, Y.B. Approaches to User Interface Development. Program Comput Soft 46, 316–323 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768820050059

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