A decision support tool has been created to help developers of enterprise business applications choose appropriate user interface design patterns. The tool implements a dynamic visualization of design choices structured as a faceted classification of user tasks and user types. Terminology used for the facet and choice labels was informed by interviews with developers about their design strategies. The main finding from testing 17 developers was that when the wrong patterns were selected, it was usually due to misinterpretation of the facet choice labels. As a result, certain facet choices were removed or consolidated and new ones were identified.
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