Effective communications between designers and developers remain a crucial aspect of the software development process. In the current study, we propose the approach of sharing the visual interaction design. The proposed approach is based on the idea that the designer shares animations directly from the designer’s application environment with a single click. Developers access design data via the web browser in a convenient form where the visual interaction design represents an interactive video. According to the conducted user study, most designers (69%) and developers (81%) were satisfied with the approach concept in general. Both groups of specialists highly evaluated the user interface of the implementation. Performance measurements revealed that interactive video is about 92% faster than pure graphics on average design complexity. Most survey participants (82%) agreed with the idea that interactive video is good enough to express animation. The results show that application development using the proposed approach improved human-computer interaction. It allows designers to save time on sharing design information and allows developers to effectively adopt comprehensive design for new applications.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50726-8_1