USER INTERFACE PROTOTYPING: AN APPLICATION IN GEOLOGY

In this work we describe interaction patterns and their incorporation into an object-oriented software development method in order to construct a user interface prototype. In this case, this prototype belongs to a geologic media modeling application. Interaction patterns, in conjunction with an interface object model, facilitate the construction of a user interface prototype, starting from the first stages of the software life cycle. An interaction pattern describes an interaction problem, a solution and its context. A pattern is written in order to communicate experience and knowledge, and reuse it. In this work, we show feasibility and effectiveness to apply a user interface construction method, incorporated to the Software Development Unified Process and using the Unified Modeling Language to express application models.