A Retrospective on User Interface Development Technology

Author

Mijailovic, Zarko ; Milicev, Dragan

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Volume

30

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

Nov.-Dec. 2013

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

83

Abstract

The authors present a brief survey on the evolution of user interface (UI) development technology, especially over the past two decades, shaped by the desktop, Web, and mobile eras. From the technology mainstream, the authors describe form-oriented, template-based, object-oriented, hybrid, and declarative frameworks and address model-driven and generic approaches. The focus of this article is on a framework of UI development concerns and how these have been addressed in each analyzed technology or group of technologies. At the end, the authors summarize current issues and future directions of UI development in general.

Keywords

object-oriented methods; user interface management systems; UI development technology; declarative framework; form-oriented framework; model-driven approach; object-oriented framework; template-based framework; user interface development technology; Java; Mobile communication; Software development; User interfaces; XML; UI development; Web user interfaces; mobile user interfaces; user interface development;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2013.45

Filename

6484050