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Development of application program interfaces: layout or prototype

A recognized direction of improving the efficiency of the use of organizational and technical systems is management automation, which provides increased efficiency and reasonableness of decisions made. A significant role in increasing the efficiency of any automated system is played by its software. First, this thesis refers to the application or special software. Development of application programs is fraught with certain difficulties, including those associated with the efficiency of user interfaces created in its process. The analysis carried out by the authors showed that there are a number of problems in this field, which are determined by the fact that it is located at the intersection of scientific disciplines: control theory, ergonomics, technical aesthetics, and psychology. The article analyzes the factors affecting the effectiveness of the development of user interfaces. Based on the analysis, proposals for solving problems based on the use of standardization, unification and prototyping tools were synthesized. Prototyping methods are divided into evolutionary and rapid. The analysis showed that for the conditions of developing application software of automated decision support systems, the latter approach provides the greatest efficiency, namely, the use of specialized prototyping systems. The article proposes to refine the regulatory documentation, which defines the development of automated control systems, to be implemented in the structure of the process of creating such systems, an obligatory stage of interface prototyping Read more...