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Authors:
Stephan Böhm
Stefan Graser
Keywords: Mobile app prototyping; AI-assisted prototyping; Generative AI; WebAR; ChatGPT
Abstract:
The market for mobile applications is characterized by a large number of applications that are often developed by smaller companies and are distributed free of charge or at low prices via a few central app store platforms. This leads to high innovation rates and high competition. Against this background, a strong customer focus, rapid development, and cost-efficient user-centered design are particularly important for successful mobile apps. For these reasons, prototyping is of great importance in app development. Various mobile app prototyping tools have emerged in recent years, ranging from simple wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes with interfaces for implementing the designed apps. Recent advances in the field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) also offer a wide range of possibilities for assisting and automating app prototyping. Three approaches can be distinguished here: indirect guidance and assistance in prototyping, AI plug-ins as an extension of existing prototyping tools, and innovative prototyping solutions with integrated functionality based on Generative AI. This paper first describes application areas, status quo, and perspectives for using Generative AI in mobile app prototyping. This is followed by describing insights from experimental case studies with selected AI-based mobile app prototyping support. As a result, we demonstrate that simple mock-ups can be generated rapidly with the currently available AI support. While autogeneration of prototypes is more likely to be used for standard use cases, AI support is available for various steps in UX/UI design, which should increase the productivity of app prototyping as a whole soon.
Pages: 29 to 37
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023
Publication date: November 13, 2023
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3492
ISBN: 978-1-68558-100-8
Location: Valencia, Spain
Dates: from November 13, 2023 to November 17, 2023