XFaceMaker is a family of increasingly powerful graphical user interface (GUI) builders, i.e. tools for the design, prototyping and production of OSF/Motif graphical user interfaces (GUI).
As a GUI design tool, the XFaceMaker products increase the productivity of software development in all stages of the software development cycle, from the prototyping stage through the development, testing and maintenance stages. Productivity gains with respect to direct programming can easily reach a factor of ten in the early phases of the development cycle and average from three to five over the whole software development cycle. This improvement is productivity is obtained without sacrificing the quality of the code generated by XFaceMaker, which is in no way inferior to that produced by a good programmer.
XFaceMaker relies on widely available software standards used in open systems: the Motif toolkit of the Open Software Foundation and the X window system. The X/Motif graphic standard is adopted by all Unix workstation manufacturers, including Sun Microsystems, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Digital and Silicon Graphics (grouped in the so-called COSE initiative) and by many others. X and Motif are available not only on Unix workstations, but also on PCs that run the DOS operating system and Microsoft Windows, on PCs that run the Microsoft Windows NT system, and on graphics X terminals that can be connected to all of the above systems.
In a client-server environment, X and Motif are widely used as a powerful and flexible graphics interface to applications running on remote servers. The standardization and wide acceptance of the X/Motif graphic standard guarantees the investment in X/Motif GUIs over a long period of time.