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'''User Interface Modeling''' is a development technique used by computer application programmers. Today's User Interfaces (UIs) are complex software components, which play an essential role in the usability of an application. The developmentofdevelopment of UIs requires therefore, not only guidelines and best practice reports, but also a development process including the elaboration of visual models and a standardized notation for this visualization.

The term '''User Interface Modeling''' is mostly used in an [[information technology]] context. A [[user interface]] [[model (abstract)|model]] is a representation of how the end user(s) interact with a computer program or another device and also how the system responds. The modeling task is then to show all the "''directly experienced'' aspects of a thing or device" [Trætteberg2002].