Introducing Graphic Designers in a Web Development Process

Web development teams include not only software engineers but also graphic designers. In this work, we extend the OOWS method in order to introduce graphic designers into its development process. To do this, we extend the automatic code generation strategy of the OOWS method to obtain code that provides users with the information and functionality captured in the requirements model but without considering any kind of aesthetic aspect. We also propose a strategy to define domain-independent presentation templates. These templates can be applied to any web application developed by the OOWS method. These extensions allow us to define a web development process where graphic designers work together with analysts with a high degree of independence from each other but always in a coordinated way.

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