Beyond Automatic Generation — Exploratory Approach to UI Design

  • Srdjan Kovacevic
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Abstract

Automatic generation of user interfaces holds a promise of improving productivity by working at a higher level of abstraction. However, UI design is a creative activity and cannot be fully automated. It is critical that a design tool provides adequate support for exploration. The paper presents a model-based approach to UI development that combines automatic generation of user interfaces with design transformations. Design transformations are platform and language-independent abstractions for exploring alternative designs. The paper presents how this approach is validated in TACTICS, which integrates a compositional model of user interfaces and a transformational model of the UI design space. The paper gives examples of design transformations and illustrates them using design patterns.

Keywords

model-based user interface task model automatic generation design transformations design patterns 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Srdjan Kovacevic
    • 1
  1. 1.AonixSan DiegoUSA

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