A collection of user interface design patterns for workflow infor ma tion systems is presented. Each Workflow User Interface
Pattern (WUIP) is characterized by properties expressed in the PLML markup language for expressing patterns and augmented
by additional attributes and models at tached to the pattern: the abstract user interface and the corresponding task model.
These models are specified in a User Interface Description Langua ge. All WUIPs are stored in a library and can be retrieved
within a workflow editor that links each workflow pattern to its corresponding WUIP, thus giving rise to a user interface
for each workflow pattern. The software then gathers these UIs and the ones corresponding to workflow tasks into a user interface
flow, a new concept introduced for specifying the intertwining of interfaces used by workers and the workflow manager in a
single workflow.
Keywords design pattern - user interface description language - user interface flow - workflow information system - workflow model editor - WUIP