Platform-Independent UI Models: Extraction from UI Prototypes and rendering as W3C Web Components

Abstract

Managing a process to design a user interface faces many issues.
One is the communication between the designer and developer. This issues may even be greater in the domain of prototype driven development, since it may be iterative and refactoring starts the process from the beginning. These issues are significantly slowing down the development process and therefore the life and release cycles of the product.
The idea of this thesis is to provide a tool, that automates the process of transforming a drawing of the user interface by an UI expert to W3C Web Components. The data is exported from the UI expert`s prototyping tool via the scalable vector graphics format and then transformed to a view model, from which W3C standardized web components can be generated.