Towards Understanding the User Interface Designers Environment An

Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer's Environment: An Empirical Approach Peter Mortimer, 19. 06. 2017, Munich Chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis) Faculty of Informatics Technische Universität München wwwmatthes. in. tum. de

Outline • Motivation • Research Questions • Approach • Current Progress 170619 Kick Off Presentation – Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer’s environment: An Empirical Approach by Peter Mortimer © sebis 2

Motivation Design Development Customer UI Designer Developer Manager 170619 Kick Off Presentation – Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer’s environment: An Empirical Approach by Peter Mortimer © sebis 3

Motivation Design ? Development Customer UI Designer ? Developer Manager 170619 Kick Off Presentation – Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer’s environment: An Empirical Approach by Peter Mortimer © sebis 4

Research Questions • How do UI designers create UI mockups? • What are currently the state of the art UI design tools? • How does the communication between the developer and the UI designer work? • What are the main artifacts created in the UI design process? 170619 Kick Off Presentation – Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer’s environment: An Empirical Approach by Peter Mortimer © sebis 5

Approach § Exploratory Research § Gain deeper knowledge on the UI design process § Conduct a survey with a mix of open question types and quantitative questions § Empirical Research § Target audience: UI Designers working in Web & Mobile Design (customer-facing UI) § Questions are focused towards the respondent’s UI design process [1] Claes Wohlin, Per Runeson, Martin Höst, Magnus C. Ohlsson, Bjöorn Regnell, and Anders Wesslén. 2000. Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, USA. 170619 Kick Off Presentation – Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer’s environment: An Empirical Approach by Peter Mortimer © sebis 6

Approach – Target Audience • Online Survey (created in Quest. Back) • 11 Questions, 15 minutes to complete • Send to handpicked companies and freelancers (customer-facing Web & Mobile Design) Companies Freelancers … … 170619 Kick Off Presentation – Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer’s environment: An Empirical Approach by Peter Mortimer © sebis 7

Approach – Prototype Scale • Artifact-driven view of the UI design process • Allows for a shared understanding of the possible design artifacts • Respondents then use these terms consistently throughout the survey 170619 Kick Off Presentation – Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer’s environment: An Empirical Approach by Peter Mortimer © sebis 8

Current Progress • low response rate (5%) • Contact more companies/freelancers • Increase the response rate (phone, meetings, …) • Respondents are willing to describe their design process • Prototype scale is well understood by the respondents • Shortcomings in the design tools and the communication process are being mentioned 170619 Kick Off Presentation – Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer’s environment: An Empirical Approach by Peter Mortimer © sebis 9

Current Progress Task Start End Survey Preparation May 17 June 7 Survey June 7 July 9 Evaluation July 10 July 31 Visualization August 1 August 7 Final Presentation August 8 August 15 Prepare Report June 17 June 24 Writing Phase June 25 July 29 Survey Distribution August 15 August 17 170619 Kick Off Presentation – Towards Understanding the User Interface Designer’s environment: An Empirical Approach by Peter Mortimer © sebis 10

Peter Mortimer Technische Universität München Faculty of Informatics Chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Tel Fax +49. 89. 289. 17132 +49. 89. 289. 17136 peter. mortimer@tum. de wwwmatthes. in. tum. de