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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2011.12.12.5849

User Interface Design Model for Improving Visual Cohesion  

Park, In-Cheol (Division of Computer.Game, Howon University)
Lee, Chang-Mog (Division of Computer Engineering, Chonbuk National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.12, no.12, 2011 , pp. 5849-5855 More about this Journal
Abstract
As application development environment changes rapidly, importance of user interface design is increasing. Usually, most of designers are clustering by subjective method of individual to define objects that have relativity in design interface. But, interface which is designed without particular rules just adds inefficiency and complexity of business to user who use this system. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an object oriented design model that allows for flexible development by formalizing the user interface prototype in any GUI environment. The visual cohesion of the user interface is a new set of criteria which has been studied in relation to the user interface contents, and is founded on the basis of the cohesion of the interface as defined using basic software engineering concepts. The visual cohesion includes the issue of how each unit is arranged and grouped, as well as the cohesion of the business events which appear in the programming unit. The interface will become easier to understand and use if the business events are grouped by their inter-relevance within the user interface.
Keywords
User interface; Business event; Interface prototype; Object grouping; Desgin model;
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