Prototyping of Graphing Tools by Direct GUI Composition — an Experience Report
Daniel G. Aliaga, Matthias Schneider‐Hufschmidt · Berichte des German Chapter of the ACM · 1993
Direct Manipulation has been advocated as a promising technique for user interface development and prototyping. The combination of a direct manipulation design technique with a compositional approach for the definition of new user interface objects (widgets) results in an open and extensible user interface design environment, which allows the creation of new objects and user interfaces without conventional programming. Using this approach we designed a powerful set of graphing tools for user interfaces requiring static or dynamically updated graphical representations of data. This paper describes the prototypical implementation of the SX graph tools and reports the experiences gained using a compositional approach for user interface prototyping.