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Beat Rossmy, Maximilian Rauh, Alexander Wiethoff
Towards User Interface Guidelines for Musical Grid Interfaces
In Proceedings of the 22st International ACM Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Auckland, New Zealand, June 28th - July 1st, 2022. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Musical grid interfaces are becoming an industry standard for interfaces that allow interaction with music software, electronics, or instruments. However, there are no clearly defined design standards or guidelines, resulting in grid interfaces being a multitude of interfaces with competing design approaches, making these already abstract UIs even more challenging. In this paper, we compare the co-existing design approaches of UIs for grid interfaces used by commercial and non-commercial developers and designers, and present the results of three experiments that tested the benefits of co-existing design approaches to mitigate some of the inherent design challenges.