IdealXML an interaction design tool

Francisco Montero & Víctor López

LoUISE Research GroupUniversity of Castilla-La

ManchaBucharest, Romania, June 5-8, 2006

Demonstration

Contents

• What is IdealXML?• What is the main motivation for

IdealXML? • A little of history ...• How does it works?• Immediate/Future work• Conclusions

What is IdealXML?

• It is a tool for specifying, gathering, sharing, documenting, writing and reading interaction patterns

What is the main motivation for IdealXML?• It wants to become a model-based

user interface development environment driven and supported by patterns (models)

A little of history ...

A little of history ...

You can open a repository of

interaction patterns

You can read interaction patterns and write new ones

A little of history ...

How does it works

How does it works

How does it works

Future work

ConcreteInteraction

Objects

Conclusions• Patterns are presented as an ideal medium for

gathering and disseminating user experiences and UI design practices.

but, the text-based format used to document patterns, coupled with a lack of tool support for gathering and disseminating patterns, compromise the usability and accessibility of pattern languages

IdealXML wants to provide solutions to those aspects

http://www.info-ab.uclm.es/personal/fmontero/idealxml

http://www.usixml.org

Additional information

fmontero@dsi.ulcm.es

Thank you,see you in Albacete!!!

(Albacete, probably the best town in the world)