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RUCID: Rapid Usable Consistent Interaction Design Patterns-Based Mobile Phone UI Design Library, Process and Tool

2009; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-02574-7_76

1611-3349

Avinash Raj, Vihari Komaragiri,

Mobile and Web Applications

This paper is based on a research effort at Kyocera Wireless, India that aimed to overcome the limitations in the mobile phone design process, by giving designers an improved design and specification tool and helping them deal routinely with some of the more rooted constraints of phone design. The tool extends the idea of templates from simple visual elements, to more abstract design components. It adds further value to this modularization of design, by taking an approach of extensive and ever-growing library of patterns to define and refine these components. The components cover most of the low- to medium-level building blocks of design. They are specified in the library as a tuple(patterns) of each at the different level of hierarchy. The components are visually represented using standardized shapes with placeholder and help text and are made available as part of the design work surface of a visual prototyping tool such as MS Visio or Adobe Fireworks.