D-Macs: building multi-device user interfaces by demonstrating, sharing and replaying design actions

  • Authors:
  • Jan Meskens;Kris Luyten;Karin Coninx

  • Affiliations:
  • Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium;Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium;Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Multi-device user interface design mostly implies creating suitable interface for each targeted device, using a diverse set of design tools and toolkits. This is a time consuming activity, concerning a lot of repetitive design actions without support for reusing this effort in later designs. In this paper, we propose D-Macs: a design tool that allows designers to record their design actions across devices, to share these actions with other designers and to replay their own design actions and those of others. D-Macs lowers the burden in multi-device user interface design and can reduce the necessity for manually repeating design actions.