Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:33012 comp.windows.x.motif:1974 comp.windows.misc:1832 comp.windows.open-look:644 comp.misc:11515 comp.graphics:16095 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!serc!bitter!velden From: velden@bitter.serc.nl (Pietje van der Velden) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.open-look,comp.misc,comp.graphics Subject: UI-designers Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 20:20:00 GMT Sender: velden@serc.nl Organization: SERC Lines: 32 At our institute we are developing an environment supporting the design and development of graphical user interfaces (UI) for interactive applications. The environment is called Digis: Direct Interactive Generation of Interactive Systems. The user of Digis is to be an interface designer: someone who is not a programmer, but an expert in ergonomics, "human factors" or design disciplines. Consequently, one of the main goals of Digis is that it has to be usable by non-programmers. In practice we experienced that UI-designers do not exist, or are at least very hard to find -- as far as we know the design of the UI is done by the application programmer. Therefore we want to ask the following questions: 1) Do UI-designers exist in real life (i.e.: specialists in designing, *not* application programmers). 2) If they do: what is his or her theoretical background (ergonomics, industrial design, ...)? 3) Does the designer use any tools; if so what kind of tools (e.g. a drawing application, widgets toolkit, ...). Any information on these questions is greatly appreciated. Please reply direct to velden@serc.nl. We'll summarize the replies if necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pietje van der Velden | Email: velden@serc.nl Software Engineering Research Centre (SERC) | Fax: +31 30 34 12 49 P.box 424 | 3500 AK Utrecht | The Netherlands |