GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-91-10
Title:
Coupling Application Design and User Interface Design
Authors:
Dennis J.M.J. de Baar
James D. Foley
Kevin E. Mullet
Abstract:
Building an interactive application requires, amongst other activities,
the design of both a data model and a user interface.
These two designs are often done separately, frequently by different
individuals or groups. However, there are strong similarities
between the objects, actions and attributes of the data model and those of
the user interface. This means that considerable specification
work has to be done twice. Our approach is to automatically generate
user interface elements directly from the data model. This saves time
and effort and at the same time style rules can be applied automatically
to the design of the user interface. This relieves the designer of the
need to be familiar with certain style rules, while at the same time
creating the consistency embodied in the rules.
Keywords:
User interface software, automatic user interface design, data models
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