Coupling Application Design and User Interface Design

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Dennis J. M. J. de Baar, James D. Foley, Kevin E. Mullet
• Keywords: CHI 1992, Data Model, Human Computer Interaction, User Interface, User Interface Elements