Design Breakdowns

Maudet, Nolwenn; Leiva, Germán; Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel; Mackay, Wendy E.

doi:10.1145/2998181.2998190

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“…In practice, disciplinary divides between designers and developers can be stark [39]. The interaction design literature has examined the divide between designers and developers from a number of angles, including: how designers and developers align their work in collaborations [11], how they work remotely [65], and how design tools can function as boundary objects that mitigate designers' lack of "material" experience with software [49].…”

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“…The interaction design literature has examined the divide between designers and developers from a number of angles, including: how designers and developers align their work in collaborations [11], how they work remotely [65], and how design tools can function as boundary objects that mitigate designers' lack of "material" experience with software [49]. Recent work by Maudet et al [39] has drawn attention to design breakdowns in design handoff, in which potential disconnects between designers and developers are highlighted 1 Data experts had technical and/or domain-related data expertise. by difficulties in implementing the final design.…”

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“…This distribution of roles creates the challenge of handoff, the codifying and exchange of information between people working on different roles in a project, and the related challenge of communicating domain knowledge across roles. This problem is already well-known in general software design, where interaction designers are often distinct from software developers [39]. Over the past two decades, a wide range of specialized tools has emerged to help interaction designers outline and prototype interfaces in ways that reduce the friction between graphical designs and code.…”

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Data Changes Everything: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Design Handoff

Walny

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West

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IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Complex data visualization design projects often entail collaboration between people with different visualization-related skills. For example, many teams include both designers who create new visualization designs and developers who implement the resulting visualization software. We identify gaps between data characterization tools, visualization design tools, and development platforms that pose challenges for designer-developer teams working to create new data visualizations. While it is common for commercial interaction design tools to support collaboration between designers and developers, creating data visualizations poses several unique challenges that are not supported by current tools. In particular, visualization designers must characterize and build an understanding of the underlying data, then specify layouts, data encodings, and other data-driven parameters that will be robust across many different data values. In larger teams, designers must also clearly communicate these mappings and their dependencies to developers, clients, and other collaborators. We report observations and reflections from five large multidisciplinary visualization design projects and highlight six data-specific visualization challenges for design specification and handoff. These challenges include adapting to changing data, anticipating edge cases in data, understanding technical challenges, articulating data-dependent interactions, communicating data mappings, and preserving the integrity of data mappings across iterations. Based on these observations, we identify opportunities for future tools for prototyping, testing, and communicating data-driven designs, which might contribute to more successful and collaborative data visualization design.

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Data Changes Everything: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Design Handoff

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West

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IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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“…Our goal is to provide better support for video prototyping in an integrated way to avoid inconsistencies [38]. How can we help designers persist their prototyping iterations consistently, with minimum post-production editing and re-shooting?…”

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Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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“…The following three studies are presented in more detail in[43] ACMTransactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 26, No.…”

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Leiva

Maudet

Mackay

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ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Professional designers and developers often struggle when transitioning between the design and implementation of an interactive system. We conducted three studies that focused on the design of custom interactions to understand the mismatches between their processes, tools and representations. We found that current practices induce unnecessary rework and cause discrepancies between design and implementation. We identified three recurring types of breakdowns: omitting critical details, ignoring edge cases, and disregarding technical limitations. We propose four design principles to create tools that mitigate these problems: Provide multiple viewpoints, maintain a single source of truth, reveal the invisible and support design by enaction. We applied these principles to create Enact, a live environment for prototyping touch-based interactions. We conducted two studies to assess Enact and to compare designer-developer collaboration with Enact versus current tools. Results suggest that Enact helps participants detect more edge cases, increases designers' participation and provides new opportunities for co-creation.

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Design Breakdowns

Cited by 27 publications

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Data Changes Everything: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Design Handoff

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