Design by example of adaptive User Interfaces

Adaptation to the available screen size is a recurrent problem in graphical user interface design. On the one hand it is not trivial for a designer to specify how a Graphical User Interface (GUI) should adapt; on the other hand it is very hard to construct a predictable adaptation algorithm that never leads to undesired user interface presentations. In this paper, we present a technique to design by example user interfaces that automatically adapt to the available screen size while the designer and eventually the end user still have full control over the adaptation during runtime. This design by example technique could lead to novel tools that lower the threshold for designers as well as developers to design adaptive user interfaces.