... Guide to UserInterface Design. The impetus for these newer editions
of The Essential Guide to UserInterfaceDesign has been the impact of the World Wide
Web on interface and screen design. This ... versus Application Design 40
Principles of UserInterfaceDesign 44
Principles for the Xerox STAR 44
General Principles 45
Part 1 Exercise 58
What’s Next? 58
Part 2 The UserInterfaceDesign Process ... Web interfacedesign guidelines, and updates significant general interface
findings over the past several years.
Is Good Design Important?
Is good design important? It certainly is! Ask the users...
... Chapter 16 Slide 3
Topics covered
Design issues
The userinterfacedesign process
User analysis
Userinterface prototyping
Interface evaluation
IanSommerville 2004 Software Engineering, ... 16 Slide 1
User interface design
IanSommerville 2004 Software Engineering, 7th edition. Chapter 16 Slide 2
Objectives
To suggest some general design principles for user
interface design
To ... its
anticipated users.
System users often judge a system by its
interface rather than its functionality.
A poorly designed interface can cause a user
to make catastrophic errors.
Poor userinterface design...
... information on
user interface design, none contains specific descriptions of how a designer
transforms the information gathered about users and their work into an
effective userinterface design. This ... Tips
To access the contents, click the chapter and section titles.
User Interface Design: Bridging the Gap from User Requirements to
Design
(Publisher: CRC Press LLC)
Author(s): Larry E. Wood
ISBN: ... specific design project. While the projects, the
processes, and the methods vary considerably, the common theme is the
building of that bridge between User Requirements and UserInterface Design.
Some...
... an Initial UserInterfaceDesign 97
Exercise 2: Design Feedback and User Assistance (10 minutes)
!
Refine the design by adding feedback and user assistance
1. Review the design you ... the user.
Write this on the userinterfacedesign and identify the controls that will
provide the feedback.
3. Identify how user assistance will be implemented.
Write this on the userinterface ... user interface. The design
will be a low fidelity visual representation.
First, you will draw the userinterface on paper.
Next, you will design feedback and user assistance for the interface. ...
... A userinterface is well designed when the program model conforms to the
user model.
That's it. Almost all good userinterfacedesign comes down to bringing the program model
and the user ... interpret their actions. The interface needs to behave in the
way they expect it to behave.
Thus, the cardinal axiom of all userinterface design:
A userinterface is well designed when the program ... level we think we're designing for users, but no matter
how hard we try, we're designing for who we think the user is, and that means, sadly, that
we're designing for ourselves....
... development with
a prototype of the user interface.
Courses?
Manual?
Fig 1.1A System interfaces
System
Hotline?
User
interfaces
Accounting
system
Technical
interfaces
Factory
V. Heuristic evaluation
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Heuristic ... enhance the system.
I. Concept of User Interface
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The interaction with the computer takes
place through the user interface.
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In a standard PC, the userinterface consists of the
screen, ... . .
Design of user interfaces:
Example
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Assume that the system is dealing with sales and invoicing. It has a
database of customers, products and invoices (Figure 1.1B).
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The user interface...
... developers and designers. And since interfacedesign and usability become more important as
differentiating factors for the most successful apps, we’re featuring some of the most creative designers ... featuring some of the most creative designers in this
book.
iPhone UserInterfaceDesign Projects is unique within the series for being design, rather than code,
focused. All of those hard-core developer ... the case of userinterface design, the lack of code. As developers, we
all take comfort in the language of code. This book is about the visual presentation of your code. Most of your users
have...
... them.
Therefore,when you design a user interface, you have to understand how the
interface works in the operating system for which you’re designing it. If
you’re going to write a software interface for ... as of this writing.
The Text User Interface
After GUIs became popular, the term text user interface, or TUI, was coined
to distinguish text interfaces from graphics interfaces, as shown in Figure
2.13. ... Issues 31
Figure 2.13 A sample text user interface.
Design Improvements and Aggravations
2006 saw a number of interesting developments in userinterface design, start-
ing with the most popular...
... high-tech
company’s total costs. If users find the userinterface easy to use, they will
likely not need to contact customer support. Without guidance afforded by
good userinterface design, users will use their ... so important—it lets you understand how
your users react to your userinterface so you learn what’s wrong and what’s
right in your userinterface design, as well as any other peripheral materials
that ... something tangible to present to
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Interface design
, which is the process of designing a software or hard-
ware interface that users find attractive and easy to use. GUI design
requirements have taken...
... about applying interface principles and patterns that adhere
to these good design principles in Chapter 7,“Designing a User Interface. ”
Are Designers Against Users?
Designers and users have fundamentally ... goals apply to userinterface design? Cooper and Reimann
(2003) applied the four goals to userdesign as follows, and Ive added a few
tips of my own:
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Ethical
The userinterfacedesign should ... and
workflow design based on the users’ tasks and streamlines work before
you begin design. No interfacedesign is produced in this task.
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Conceptual model design
The team creates high-level design...
... about good design goals. You must
implement four good design goals into any user interface: to implement ethi-
cal, purposeful, pragmatic, and elegant designs. The benefits of user design
include ... Model
Now that you’ve learned about good userdesign and what it takes to build
both a good userinterface and good user documentation, you need to under-
stand how users behave so you can build a software ... looks good to your users, because
users will spot poorly reviewed documentation right away.
The chapter ended with a discussion about why you should care about good
user interface design. There are...
... opportunity for userinterface designers. The problem
is that users are now driving not only the marketing of products, but also
the userinterface design. The opportunity is that the designer(s) ... level of knowledge, and you can design your userinterface to meet the
needs of this large group of users.
To create a good interface or product design for your users, you need to have
goals. ... This users’ mental model is the user vision for your userinterface
what they expect the interface will look like and how it will behave. The
closer you come to this vision in your interface design, the...
... experiences.
Designing a UserInterface 177
Figure 7.7 InDesign contains tabs at the right side of the window.
7
Designing a User Interface
“Let it be your constant method to look into the design ... follow-
ing design tips in mind as you develop your userinterface (Cooper and
Reimann, 2003):
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Ethical
Ethical design is considerate and helpful and actually improves
human situations. In interface design, ... create userinterfacedesign that has the purpose of serv-
ing your users well by making them stronger and more effective in
their lives.
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Pragmatic
You must create and build a good user design...