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Existing software modeling tools are widely recognized to be hard to use and, hence, to adopt. We believe those usability problems are related to a legacy of formalism-centric tools that don’t promote the new challenges of modern software development. In this short paper, we briefly describe a new tool, under development, that tries to promote usability in modeling tools to support collaborative development of interactive software. It focuses on usable, real-world languages and a developer-centered design.
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Campos, P.F., Nunes, N.J. (2005). A UML-Based Tool for Designing User Interfaces. In: Jardim Nunes, N., Selic, B., Rodrigues da Silva, A., Toval Alvarez, A. (eds) UML Modeling Languages and Applications. UML 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31797-5_32
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