1) The paper's name: The Skin Pattern 2) Author's name(s): Rani Pinchuk Yonat Sharon Primary contact: Yonat Sharon 3) E-mail addresses for all authors: Rani Pinchuk rp@ockham.be Yonat Sharon yonat@usa.net 4) Postal address for primary contact: Maayan Baruch Upper Galilee 12220 Israel 5) Phone number of primary contact: +972-66954817 6) Abstract: The Skin Pattern is a technique to separate the presentation style of an application (its "skin") from its logic. Keeping the skins separate makes the application code closed to cosmetic changes in the UI, and the UI closed to bug fixes and changes in the application code. The code becomes more readable and easier to maintain. Further, the people who define and maintain the skins do not need to understand any programming language, since there is no code in the skins. Graphic tools may be used to generate and modify the skins, thus providing intuitive and friendly tools for UI designers.