The designer as user: Building requirements for design tools from design practice

Mary Beth Rosson; Wendy Kellogg; Susanne Maass

doi:10.1145/50087.50090

The designer as user: Building requirements for design tools from design practice

Mary Beth Rosson, Wendy Kellogg, Susanne Maass

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Software tools that support the design and development of interactive computing systems are an exciting possibility. The potential pay-off is great: user interface management systems, for example, promise not only to speed the process of specifying, implementing and maintaining user interface code, but also to guide the content of the user interfaces they support. As for any tool intended for human use, however, the success of software design tools will hinge on a thorough understanding of the problems they seek to address—design as it is practiced in the real world.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1288-1298
Number of pages	11
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	31
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/50087.50090
State	Published - Nov 1 1988

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