User interface design based on phase-oriented information classification

New modeling techniques are needed for providing development environments for software having high general applicability. Information handled by software differs in form depending on its procedures and requires different handling methods. Such methods include methods of recognizing these as phases of information and dividing them into modules that correspond to the information phases. This study proposes a software development environment based on the recognition of information phases in a user interface. It implements a specific user interface by recognizing three phases of information-panel information, operation information, presentation information-and defining the methods of handling information for each phase. (C) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.