A sketching tool for designing anyuser, anyplatform, anywhere user interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Adrien Coyette;Jean Vanderdonckt

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Management (IAG), Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;School of Management (IAG), Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP TC13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Sketching activities are widely adopted during early design phases of user interface development to convey informal specifications of the interface presentation and dialog. Designers or even end users can sketch some or all of the future interface they want. With the ever increasing availability of different computing platforms, a need arises to continuously support sketching across these platforms with their various programming languages, interface development environments and operating systems. To address needs along these dimensions, which pose new challenges to user interface sketching tools, Sketchi XML is a multi-platform multi-agent interactive application that enable designers and end users to sketch user interfaces with different levels of details and support for different contexts of use. The results of the sketching are then analyzed to produce interface specifications independently of any context, including user and platform. These specifications are exploited to progressively produce one or several interfaces, for one or many users, platforms, and environments.