ABSTRACT
To design useful User Interfaces (UIs), the designer must consider not only beauty but also the users’situation; who will use the UI, why/how they will use it, and so on. However, most designers fail to adopt a well-structured approach to UI design. This paper proposes a Scenario-based Interactive System Design and tool. Our proposed tool enforces the integration of many details through its three processes. 1. Structured scenarios are explicitly written by the designer using a hierarchy structure. 2. Nodes of the hierarchy are examined to identify the functions needed, the attributes to be handled, and the order in which the functions are invoked. 3. At the request of the designer, the tool can visualize the functions and attributes in the form of conceptual layouts. With this tool, a designer can create well-formed comprehensive UIs smoothly and easily.
