Demonstrando a utilidade dos padrões de comunicação de interface para aplicativos móveis

Abstract

With the significant increase in handsets it has become a challenge for designers to develop interfaces for mobile devices. The interface patterns have come with the goal of making it easier to create screens because they bring a part of the solution to a design problem. Over time, by the growth in the volume of standards available in the literature and in the developer community, it became possible to identify reports of problems in the application of standards. So it was interesting to demonstrate through an experimental study how novice designers possessing different levels of intimacy with design standards would redesign a mobile application with use of communication patterns and evaluate the quality of the generated prototypes. It was possible to identify that the minority of the participants had no experience with design, but few participants presented difficulties in understanding the application of the standards. Quality criteria were used to evaluate the prototypes and it was possible to observe that the completeness criterion presented low level of efficiency.