D-Macs: building multi-device user interfaces by demonstrating, sharing and replaying design actions

Multi-device user interface design mostly implies creating a suitable interface for each targeted device, using a diverse set of design tools and toolkits. This is a time consuming activity, concerning a lot of repetitive design actions without support for reusing this effort in later designs. In this paper, we propose D-Macs: a design tool that allows designers to record their design actions across devices, to share these actions with other designers and to replay their own design actions and those of others. D-Macs lowers the burden in multi-device user interface design and can reduce the necessity for manually repeating design actions. ACM Classification: H5.2 [Information interfaces and presentation]: User Interfaces. - Graphical user interfaces. General terms: Design

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: UIST
• Authors: Jan Meskens, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx
• Keywords: Design, Design Actions, Multi-device User Interface, Software Engineering, UIST 2010