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Sketching consists of a widely practiced activity during early design phases of product in general and for user interface development in particular in order to convey informal specifications of the interface before actually implementing it. It is quite interesting to observe that designers as well as end users have abilities to sketch parts or whole of the final user interface they want, while discussing the advantages and shortcomings. SketchiXML consists of a multi-platform multi-agent interactive application that enables designers, developers, or even end users to sketch user interfaces with different levels of details and support for different contexts of use. The results of the sketching are then analyzed to produce interface specifications independently of any context, including user and platform. These specifications are exploited to progressively produce one or several interfaces, for one or many users, platforms, and environments.
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Coyette, A., Vanderdonckt, J., Limbourg, Q. (2007). SketchiXML: A Design Tool for Informal User Interface Rapid Prototyping. In: Guelfi, N., Buchs, D. (eds) Rapid Integration of Software Engineering Techniques. RISE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4401. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71876-5_11
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