GUIComp: A GUI Design Assistant with Real-Time, Multi-Faceted Feedback
This work addresses GUI design challenges for users with no experience, offering an incremental improvement through an assistance tool.
The paper tackled the problem of inexperienced users struggling with GUI design by developing GUIComp, a tool that provides real-time, multi-faceted feedback as an extension to design software. The results from user studies showed that GUIComp facilitated iterative design, leading to better user experience and more acceptable designs compared to those without it.
Users may face challenges while designing graphical user interfaces, due to a lack of relevant experience and guidance. This paper aims to investigate the issues that users with no experience face during the design process, and how to resolve them. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews, based on which we built a GUI prototyping assistance tool called GUIComp. This tool can be connected to GUI design software as an extension, and it provides real-time, multi-faceted feedback on a user's current design. Additionally, we conducted two user studies, in which we asked participants to create mobile GUIs with or without GUIComp, and requested online workers to assess the created GUIs. The experimental results show that GUIComp facilitated iterative design and the participants with GUIComp had better a user experience and produced more acceptable designs than those who did not.