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The aim of this bachelor thesis is to characterize and evaluate WYSIWYG tools used in user interface design of desktop applications and then to select the best tool. In order to achieve this goal it is first necessary to define a terminology in the problem domain of the user interface design and afterwards to specify the evaluation criteria and their weights of the tools assessment. The thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part explains terms like user interface, application, WYSIWYG technologies and describes the basic principles of user interface design. The practical part defines criteria for evaluation of tools used in design of user interface and characterizes selected tools. The last chapter of the practical part contains final assessment of the selected tools and the best tool is chosen. The tools chosen for evaluation are GUI Design Studio, Microsoft Expression Blend, Microsoft Office Visio, Java GUI Builder and Balsamiq Mockup. Evaluation criteria that have been selected are license, price, availability of trial version, the quality of information on the website, support, Czech localization, friendly user interface and functionality. Weights of criteria are based on one of the methods of the multi-criteria decision analysis. Contribution of this thesis can be found in evaluation of selected tools used in design of user interface and thus in comparison of several different tools. |
