What designers want: Needs of interactive application designers

Authors:
Valentina Grigoreanu;Roland Fernandez;Kori Inkpen;George Robertson
Affiliations:
Oregon State University;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research
Venue:
VLHCC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In order to inform the design of new tools for interactive application design, we used a grounded theory approach to find out what designers' needs are when designing such applications. This paper reports our findings (20 designer needs) from content analysis of five types of artifacts: surveys, Blend discussion list emails, Dreamweaver forum entries, Flash forum entries, and interviews with ten designers. These 20 needs were then validated in follow-up interviews and focus group sessions. The results of this work revealed trends regarding the importance of each need and show that flow is one of the most important needs.