Everything about User interface specification

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: User interface specificationA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Distributed transaction processingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Interactive specification of flexible user interface displaysCited 30 times
4. Go sideways: Website wireframeA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Functional specificationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Interactive specification of flexible user interface displays

  Scott E. Hudson, Shamim P. Mohamed · 1990 · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 30 citations

• A DECISION-MAKING SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE FOR VERIFIABLE USER-INTERFACE ADAPTATION LOGIC

  ANTHONY SAVIDIS, MARGHERITA ANTONA, CONSTANTINE STEPHANIDIS · 2005 · International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 26 citations

• User interface specification using an enhanced spreadsheet model

  Scott E. Hudson · 1994 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 22 citations

• A graphical user interface for Boolean query specification

  Steve Jones, Shona McInnes, Mark S. Staveley · 1999 · International Journal on Digital Libraries · 20 citations

• A methodology for the specification of graphical user interface

  Mark Green · 1981 · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 14 citations

• A standard format and a graphical user interface for spin system specification

  A.G. Biternas, G.T.P. Charnock, Ilya Kuprov · 2014 · Journal of Magnetic Resonance · 13 citations

• A Case Study in the Specification and Analysis of Design Alternatives for a User Interface

  David Duke, Bob Fields, Michael D. Harrison · 1999 · Formal Aspects of Computing · 8 citations

• Object‐oriented specification of user interfaces

  Ari Jaaksi · 1995 · Software: Practice and Experience · 5 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Distributed transaction processingPrentice-Hall, inc., X Open · 1996
• Hypertext hands-on!Ben Shneiderman, Greg Kearsley · 1988
• Distributed TPThe Open Group · 1992
• 📕Unix System V Release 3.2 Network Programmer's GuideAT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1988
• 📕Common desktop environment · 1993
• iPhone Design Award-Winning ProjectsChris Dannen · 2010
• Natural Interaction in Medical TrainingAlberto Del Bimbo, Andrea Ferracani · 2017
• 📕Graphical interactive control design and implementation environmentRobert L. Kosut · 1996

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