End-user perceptions of formal and informal representations of web sites

Hong, Jason I.; Li, Francis C.; Lin, James; Landay, James A.

doi:10.1145/634067.634294

Cited by 10 publications

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“…This is because the informal representations imply that it is unfinished work and is welcome to further modification, as was demonstrated for web site design [6].…”

Section: Idea Communicationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Sketching informal presentations

Yang

Landay

Guan

et al. 2003

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

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Informal presentations are a lightweight means for fast and convenient communication of ideas. People communicate their ideas to others on paper and whiteboards, which afford fluid sketching of graphs, words and other expressive symbols. Unlike existing authoring tools that are designed for formal presentations, we created SketchPoint to help presenters design informal presentations via freeform sketching. In SketchPoint, presenters can quickly author presentations by sketching slide content, overall hierarchical structures and hyperlinks. To facilitate the transition from idea capture to communication, a note-taking workspace was built for accumulating ideas and sketching presentation outlines. Informal feedback showed that SketchPoint is a promising tool for idea communication.

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“…This is because the informal representations imply that it is unfinished work and is welcome to further modification, as was demonstrated for web site design [6].…”

Section: Idea Communicationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Sketching informal presentations

Yang

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Guan

et al. 2003

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

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“…Such approaches provide access to all the components, and prevent the designer from being distracted from the primary task of design. Research shows that designers who work out conceptual ideas on paper tend to iterate more and explore the design space more broadly, whereas designers using computer-based tools tend to take only one idea and work it out in detail [8,15,19]. Many designers have reported that the quality of the discussion when people are presented with a high-fidelity (Hi-Fi) prototype was different than when they are presented with a low-fidelity (Lo-Fi) mock up.…”

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“…The idea of developing a computer-based tool for sketching UIs naturally emerged from these observations [8,15]. Such tools would extend the advantages provided by sketching techniques by: easily creating, deleting, updating or moving UI elements, thus encouraging typical activities in the design process [19] such as checking and revision.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trainable Sketch Recognizer for Graphical User Interface Design

Coyette

Schimke

Vanderdonckt

et al. 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper we present a new algorithm for automatic recognition of hand drawn sketches based on the Levenshtein distance. The purpose for drawing sketches in our application is to create graphical user interfaces in a similar manner as the well established paper sketching. The new algorithm is trainable by every user and improves the recognition performance of the techniques which were used before for widget recognition. In addition, this algorithm ay serve for recognizing other types of sketches, such as letters, figures, and commands. In this way, there is no modality disruption at sketching time.

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“…Sketching is quick, so designers can rapidly explore different ideas and iterate on those ideas. In addition, user tests using rough prototypes tend to find the same usability problems as do tests with more finished prototypes [7,17].…”

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confidence: 99%

A visual language for sketching large and complex interactive designs

Lin

Thomsen

Landay

2002

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Informal, sketch-based design tools closely match the work practices of user interface designers. Current tools, however, are limited in the size and complexity of interaction that can be specified. We have created an advanced sketchbased visual language that allows for easy prototyping of large, complex interactive designs. In its current embodiment in the DENIM web design tool, the visual language allows designers to sketch reusable components for recurring page elements, such as navigation bars, as well as conditionals to illustrate and test transitions that depend on a user's input. Designers can also specify sites that accept richer user input than simple clicking. Our informal evaluation shows that these features allow designers with little programming experience to quickly create prototypes of large, complex web sites while still working inside an informal, sketch-based environment.

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End-user perceptions of formal and informal representations of web sites

Cited by 10 publications

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Sketching informal presentations

Sketching informal presentations

Trainable Sketch Recognizer for Graphical User Interface Design

A visual language for sketching large and complex interactive designs

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