RichMoLIC: Coupling Interaction and Interface Design

Storyboarding is a low-fidelity prototyping technique with large acceptance among User-Centered Design (UCD) adopters. We argue that interaction design could benefit from a model of interaction bound to interface sketches commonly used at storyboards. In our proposal, the designer first mod-els the interaction using the Modeling Language for Interac-tion as Conversation (MoLIC), and then relates it to an execu-tion model in which states are associated with user interface sketches. MoLIC reduces the gap identified in using common HCI representations such as scenarios, task models, and sto-ryboards, encouraging designers to structure and represent mechanisms for interaction breakdown recovery. It can also help to evaluate the design’s consistency and comprehensive-ness, aiming to support design decisions that might otherwise be hard to represent