Abstract—Web applications have been developed from a
simple static information webpage to a more complex web
application, supporting complex processes and transactional
workflows. The existing of numerous modeling concepts and
design features in web applications, thus raises new issues on
modeling approach. In this paper, we present and discuss the uses
of user interaction diagram, object-oriented approach and Unified
Modeling Language (UML) notation for complex web
applications. Our main objective is to propose a web application
design model which is based on UML 2.0 profile and stereotypes.
We propose user interaction diagram to capture users’
information from use case diagram and specific UML modeling
elements to model conceptual, navigational and user interface
features of complex web applications. The uniqueness of our
proposed design model stands in the design patterns modeling
approaches. At the end of the paper, some future enhancements of
the design model will be explained and briefly summarized.