An Interview-Based Approach to Elicit User Interface Design for Web Applications

  • Authors

    • Nur Atikah Shamat
    • Shahida Sulaiman
    • Jacline Sudah Sinpan
    2018-12-03
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.27890
  • User Interface Design, Web Applications, Interview-based Approach

  • Abstract

    Elicitation of user interface design for Web applications is a process to gather precise information from users to aid software engineers in designing the user interface according to users’ wants and needs. There are several issues that are related to the user interface design if they do not fulfill users’ expectations. For instance, software engineers misunderstand what users need and lack of information from users about the requirements to design the user interfaces. Thus, the elicitation of user interface design is vital in order to reduce the problem especially for Web applications. This research proposes an interview-based approach to elicit user interface design for Web applications. A prototype tool has been developed to help software engineers elicit the user interface requirements from users precisely. The evaluation shows that the proposed approach has the possibility to reduce the misunderstanding in user interface design with the focus on input control elements.

     

     

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    Atikah Shamat, N., Sulaiman, S., & Sudah Sinpan, J. (2018). An Interview-Based Approach to Elicit User Interface Design for Web Applications. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.38), 1420-1425. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.27890

    Received date: 2019-02-24

    Accepted date: 2019-02-24

    Published date: 2018-12-03