Designers increasingly need to create web applications that can run on multiple types of devices, such as desktop PCs,
handhelds, and mobile phones. However, the ability of designers to explore design ideas is hampered by the lack of tools for early-stage design of multi-device UIs. To address this problem, we designed and prototyped an early-stage, multi-device web application design tool. Our system allows a designer to sketch a web user interface design for a single device and then generates designs for other devices. The designer can subsequently modify the generated user interface.
We informally evaluated the prototype with six user interface designers. Although our tool is in the early stages of development, we were still able to gain insight into the features that a multi-device web design tool should support. These insights include the need to give designers more control over the retargeting process and the need to support a tight relationship between designs of the same user
interface targeted at different devices.
By: Lawrence Bergman, Guruduth S. Banavar, Danny Soroker, Richard J. Cardone
Published in: RC22594 in 2002
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