creating an initial user interface design

... [...]...A user interface is well designed when the program model conforms to the user model That's it Almost all good user interface design comes down to bringing the program model and the ... since users are completely free to ignore the choice and get their work done anyway, this is a good use of options 20 Chapter 4: Affordances and Metaphors Overview Developing a user interface ... and is expecting a command-line interface How many users do you need to test your interface on? The scientific approach seems like it would be "the more, the better." If testing on five users

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 15:41

... – make it possible for the user to see and change all data in the system, and – allow him to send any command across the technical interfaces. Design of user interfaces: Example • Assume ... System Hotline? User interfaces Accounting system Technical interfaces Factory Technical Interfaces • A computer system may have other interfaces than the user interface. – Interfaces to other ... across them. – The user interacts indirectly with them through the user interface to the computer. Design of user interfaces • In principle, it is easy to make a user interface. • You just

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 07:20

... application developers and designers with any level of experience, or coming from any development platform. iPhone User Interface Design Projects is a natural companion to any book in the Apress ... only are there more and better apps but there are many more experienced, truly creative developers and designers And since interface design and usability become more important... best-selling ... look great can be felt throughout the series This brings us back to the code, or in the case of user interface design, ... interface design and usability become more important as differentiating

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:20

... your interface design in Chapter 5, “How Users Behave.” Testing... your users react to your user interface so you learn what’s wrong and what’s right in your user interface design, ... interfaces, the command-line interface (CLI), and the graphical user interface (GUI) You learned the differences in these three interface models, and various types of hardware user interface ... company’s total costs If users find the user interface easy to use, they will likely not need to contact customer support Without guidance afforded by good user interface design, users

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 12:21

... 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 ... pragmatic The design must be elegant So how do these goals apply to user interface design? Cooper and Reimann (2003) applied the four goals to user design as follows, and I’ve added ... it comes to design of any kind, and that includes user design For example, designers... by others: • • • • The design must be ethical The design must be purposeful The design must

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 12:21

... glossary of terms and an index in printed or PDF user guides and online help. You may also want to add appendixes that users can refer to in a hurry, such as an appendix that contains answers to FAQs. ... chapter began with a discussion 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 ... Note that good design goals for your product and your 110 Chapter 4 [...]... learned about good user design and what it takes to build both a good user interface and good user documentation,

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 12:21

... market analysts and the design of the interface performed by designers To fill in the gaps, Cooper and Reimann created the Goal-Directed Design. .. development (Cooper and Reimann, 2003): Analyzingour ... Understanding the User s Goals The Internet has changed the way people think about interfaces and the way companies market to users (Eisenberg and Eisenberg, 20 06) This is both a problem and an ... different group of users Another person will perform an onsite analysis of the group of users you interviewed, and interview the users for. .. that your interface sends your user 1 46 Chapter

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 12:21

... (Cooper and Reimann, 2003): • Ethical —Ethical design is considerate and helpful and actually improves human situations. In interface design, you can improve communication between your user interface ... necessary to create good design (Chapter 4, “Good Design? ??) • Obtaining information about and understanding your users (Chapters 5,“How Users Behave,” and 6,“Analyzing Your Users”) 163 Now that you’ve ... for designing and implementing these standards Standards are guidelines that start with the user interface standards for software, hardware, or Web sites prescribed by the company that designs

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 12:21

... interface and richer feedback than a Web interface. Therefore, you will find that both GUI and Web affordances and constraints will apply in those situations. Be aware that many affordances and ... of finding information quickly, and the use of assistants and wizards to help get users up to speed and performing tasks more quickly and easily. Designing a User Interface 195 The chapter ended ... will understand what you want users to see in your interface. Interaction design was covered next. You learned about how to apply design principles and patterns to the four good design imperatives

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 12:21

... one or more users on the design teamm —Having users on the design team can help further users’ goals and desires throughout the production life cycle. • User survey s —You can conduct user surveys ... graphical user interface Why is Web design still a significant challenge? Because there are still too many browser limitations Why does Web design have an impact on user interface design? ... have to understand how a user interface works in the operating system for which you’re designing... leave, do the following: • Thank the users and the managers • Give the users a gift, even

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 12:21

... 164-166 user and task analysis, 146-159 user interface design See also GUIs; user interface models accessibility... defined, 23-24 Firefox, 10 future of user interface design, ... (graphical user interface) , 30-32 security interfaces, 34-36 tactile interfaces, 36 telephone user interfaces, 37 touch interfaces, 36 TUI (text user interface) , 30-31 types of, 27-28 Web interfaces, ... 241 design myths (Web sites), 202-203 design team, 228 design, testing, and development phase (UEL), 73-75 design See Goal-Directed Design Process; user interface design designers

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 12:21

... A user interface is well designed when the program model conforms to the user model. That's it. Almost all good user interface design comes down to bringing the program model and the user ... things like "worker, laborer, operative, roustabout, workhand, workingman, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, or employee" instead of just "worker" is ... your user interface and give some people tasks to accomplish. The model can be extremely simple: sometimes it's enough to draw a sloppy picture of the user interface on a piece of paper and

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 00:21

... affecting the way anything functions, and since users are completely free to ignore the choice and get their work done anyway, this is a good use of options. 20 Chapter 4: Affordances and Metaphors ... have big, rounded handles that just make you want to pull them. They even imply how they want you to place your hand on the handle. The handle affords pulling. It makes you want to pull it. ... Napster 2.0 user interface has five separate screens (Chat, Library, Search, Hot List, and Transfer), and you use the buttons at the top to switch among them. This is an obvious candidate for

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 00:21

... doesn't mean it's right," they brag, and then proceed to create a gratuitously different user interface from the one that people are used to. Before you start chanting the mantra "just ... slick, cool-looking user interface. Good graphic design like Kai is pleasing and will attract people to your program. The trick is to do it without breaking the rules. You can change the visual ... that can be done about latency or the way pages refresh (short of using JavaScript and Dynamic HTML, which isn't quite standard enough yet). And some of these quirks are specific to Urbanfetch's

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 00:21

... command. Interface designers of the Middle Command Line Era eventually realized that people didn't want to sit with a manual in their lap to get things done. They created question-and-answer ... and oranges go rolling all over the front porch, to the delight of the neighbor's dog, who starts barking and yipping and running around and generally being a nuisance. Then, when Grandpa ... mean "usability under the best of circumstances." It means usability under as many adverse circumstances as possible. This is a principle called design for extremes. Don't design

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 00:21

... of window management in an intelligent way. 58 Look closely at your program's user interface and give us all a break. Pretend that we are gorillas or maybe smart orangutans and that we ... Chapter 9: People Can't Read When you design user interfaces, it's a good idea to keep two principles in mind: 1. Users don't have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn't ... the manual, frankly, they are not going to read it unless they absolutely have no other choice (and maybe not even then). With very few exceptions, users will not cuddle up with your manual and

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 00:21

... of available commands replaced the old command-line interfaces where you had to memorize the commands you wanted to use. This is, fundamentally, the reason why command-line interfaces are simply ... better than GUI interfaces, no matter what your UNIX friends tell you. Using a command-line interface is like having to learn the complete Korean language just to order food in the Seoul branch ... full trash can. It looks messy. When they wanted to clean up, they would empty the trash. Over time, many people got into the habit of dragging things to the trash can and then mechanically emptying

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 00:21

... programmers? If we have any stock options left, that is." So, the architects and UI designers get together and design the software. They make nice storyboards, detailed functional and technical ... technical specifications, and a schedule with elegant Gantt and PERT charts that fills an entire wall. Several million dollars later, the programmers have actually built the thing, and it looks like ... first design a new feature. The basic idea is that you just show a simple drawing or screen shot of your proposed design to a few innocent bystanders (secretaries and accountants in your company

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 00:21

... design prototype Produce dynamic design prototype Evaluate design with end-users Implement final user inter face Evaluate design with end-users Analyse and understand user activities ©Ian Sommerville 2004 Software Engineering, ... Chapter 16 Slide 35 User analysis  If you don’t understand what the users want to do with a system, you have no realistic prospect of designing an effective interface.  User analyses have to be ... points  The user interface design process involves user analysis, system prototyping and prototype evaluation.  The aim of user analysis is to sensitise designers to the ways in which users actually...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2012, 11:27

... designer transforms the information gathered about users and their work into an effective user interface design. This is indicated in Figure 1.1 by the question mark between User Requirements and Interface ... transforms that into an essential model, transforms the essential model into a user s model, and finally, transforms the user s model into the user interface presentation and interaction elements. ... transition from “system-centered” to user- centered” design methods (Norman and Draper, 1986). The Star and related GUI systems introduced new hardware resources and components, while the user- centered...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33