developing the application user interface

... built in the past, end -user input is essential Although there are many ways of interacting with the end user, the three ways that offer the best return are ■ Observing the end user performing the ... the Graphical User Interface The next step is to work with the end users to answer the four questions listed on each use-case card When the cards have been completed and reviewed, they form the ... to take the perspective of a new user So, the best way to test a GUI design is to run it by users, let them ask questions, ask them questions, gauge their reactions Do they seem to use the displays...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 02:20

... both the obstacles users face in their current work tasks and the facilitators that are present to assist them to accomplish their goals The information gathered from users is then merged with the ... the design of a software application, particularly the user interface, which is the focus of this book To be usable, a user interface must provide access to the functions and features of an application ... the GUI until they have designed and tested the task objects that the GUI must represent Then they not invest in designing the details of the GUI windows until they have usability tested whether...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... Chapter 1: Windows Forms and the User Interface  Lesson 1: Adding and configuring Windows Forms     Adding Forms to the project Properties of Windows Forms Creating non-rectangular ... ellipse to the graphics path that inscribes // the rectangle defined by the form's width and height myPath.AddEllipse(0, 0, this.Width, this.Height); // Creates a new Region from the GraphicsPath ... reposition the controls inside when it is resized at either design time or run time FlowDirection property   LeftToRight by default: controls placed in the FlowLayoutPanel will locate in the upper...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 02:20

... of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, some members of the U.s Congress blamed the inadequacies of user interfaces for the failure to detect the terrorists At an individual level, user interfaces ... in the user community The users are not encumbered by the interface and can predict what will happen in response to each of their actions When an interactive system is well designed, the interface ... of the catalog to allow users anywhere in the world to access the catalog and other databases These changing user communities and requirements each led to interface revisions, even though the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... Contents About the Author Preface v xix Acknowledgments xxvii Part The User Interface An Introduction and Overview Chapter The Importance of the User Interface Defining the User Interface The Importance ... was the first edition of this book, The Essential Guide to User Interface Design The impetus for these newer editions of The Essential Guide to User Interface Design has been the impact of the ... Characteristics of the Graphical User Interface 14 14 14 15 15 16 16 17 19 24 vii viii Contents The Web User Interface The Popularity of the Web Characteristics of a Web Interface The Merging of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... learned  Act: The teams act on what they learn from testing the changes: - If the change does not yield the desired results; modify the change and run other PDSA cycles, or abandon it - If the change ... Sessions and other meetings; they may hear of them during visits from their coaches who learned about them from other teams Often teams request the participation of patients and other providers ... member of the QI team? Who selects the QI team? The QI team is usually selected by the director of the site with input from the coaches The QI team is composed of representatives of staff or other...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... properties of the KB object, and/or others that add to or override properties encoded in the KB There are two occasions where the interpreter is unable to map the discourse model to the KB, The first ... picara walked in." The second is where the class is understood but the particular instance being referenced cannot be identified at the time the NP occurs I.e., the interpreter may either not know ... detectable by the dialogue system are not intended by either agent as communicative and should not be included in the discourse representation, e.g., the user moving the mouse cursor across the screen,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 06:20

... examples we'll look at The themes folder contains two different themes the first is the base theme that is a neutral, minimal theme of grey tones The second is the smoothness theme, which we chose ... folder the base theme and whichever theme was selected when the library was downloaded The base theme is a grey, neutral theme identical to smoothness Within each of these theme folders are all the ... the complete framework and the selected theme From the two directives found in this file, we can see the separation between the part of the framework that makes the widgets function and the theme...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 15:43

... error messages and alerts to the user so that the user can fix the problem – Use the Focus() method of the control to transfer the focus back to the field – Set the Cancel property of CancelEventArgs ... When the user moves the mouse pointer over the icon, an error message pops up as a ToolTip The ErrorProvider Component Using the ErrorProvider Component and Other Validation Techniques The Validating ... – ApplicationException Represents exceptions thrown by the applications – SystemException Represents exceptions thrown by the CLR HANDLING EXCEPTIONS • The try Block HANDLING EXCEPTIONS • The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 11:39

... and then change the colors of the various parts of the image The original flora image can be found in the i folder, inside the themes folder, of the unpacked library Don't forget to link to the ... enhance the user interfaces of your websites and applications Because jQuery UI runs on top of jQuery, the syntax used to initialize, configure, and manipulate the different components is in the ... for How to obtain a copy of the library How to set up a development environment The structure of the library Theme Roller The format of the API Browser Support How the library is licensed Introducing...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 12:20

... Knowledge: Are users familiar with the subject matter associated with the application? Profiling the Target User • Application- Specific Experience: Will users be familiar with the purpose and ... assumptions does the SUT make about user skill level, and how well the expected users’ knowledge and skills match those assumptions? Profiling the Target User • Web Experience: How long have the users been ... of the program because of past experience? Is this the first release of the product, or is there an existing base of users in the marketplace who are familiar with the product? Considering the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2014, 11:14

... analyzer to catch such errors by enabling them to narrate the logical process of the pipeline, potentially with the same rigor as a mathematical proof Users can then publish Galaxy Pages as supplementary ... requires users to consider their options carefully This is the most practical approach for Galaxy as well, but creates its own usability problems, especially the additional burden placed on the user ... tapping into the collective intelligence of the Galaxy community and improving the field for everyone Galaxy’s goals are ambitious, and the project is not without limitations, but it is now the leading...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:22

... tab; the method expects the index number of the tab and the new URL destroy Completely remove the tabs widget length Return the number of tabs in the widget rotate Automatically changes the active ... arguments which are the index of the tab whose URL we want to change followed by the new URL We then call the load method, which is chained to the url method, specifying the index of the tab whose ... run the new file in your browser and select the AJAX tab Then use the to choose the second file and watch as the content of the tab is changed as seen here: You'll also see that the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... the flora theme used in the first example Like some of the other widgets we have looked at, certain aspects of the default or flora themes are required to make the widget function correctly Therefore, ... positioned at the bottom of the dialog Therefore, we need to increase the height of the widget so that the does not obscure the text We can also style the itself by using the following ... navAccordion.html To see the full effects of the navigation property, the other pages that the main page links to should be available Don't worry about creating these yourself, they are all in the code download...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... Skinning the date picker The date picker comes with two themes The first is the flora theme, which is shown in the screenshot at the start of this chapter, and the default theme, which is shown in the ... Each time the state of the slider changes, the appropriate message will be written to the message box The following screenshot shows a message: You'll only see either the slide message or the change ... Retrieve the current value of the thumb Disable the functionality of the slider Enable the functionality of the slider Return the underlying mark-up to its original state [ 127 ] Slider The first...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... object for the date picker The properties of the object are simply the callback function to make the dates specified in the JSON object unselectable, and the minDate property will be set to the relative ... selects the first item in the suggestion list when the Tab or return key is hit width width of the Sets the width of the suggestion menu url Sets the maximum number of suggestions in the ... button The buttonImage property allows us to specify the relative path of the image to use, and the buttonImageOnly property ensures that only the image is shown, not the image on top of the ...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... Chapter The result, is the data (the word returned as a result), and the row corresponds to the number of the result What is meant by this is that the first result will have a row number of 1, the ... execution of your application if there is a change to the data set that the auto-complete is tied to at the backend, and hence the URL used to query it Changing things like the URL that the widget gets ... actually see them on the page, but the effects that they add to different elements, and how they cause them to behave, can easily be seen These are low-level components as opposed to the high-level...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... simply get the id of the button and call the toggle() function, passing in the id we just obtained from the button as an argument The toggle() function then calls the method specifying the string ... in the styles folder We've set the dimension properties because without them the will stretch the width of the screen We've also specified a border that matches the flora theme because the ... is useful to show the user the new size of the resizable while the resize is taking place The value we give to the helper property becomes the class name that is applied to the helper element,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... components of the library, namely the destroy, disable, and enable methods These work and are used in the same way as the methods by the same names that come with the other interaction components Therefore, ... called at the end of the fadeIn effect, which hides the new after a specified length of time The following screenshot shows how our page looks before the fades away: Like the other library ... is with the rest of the library We'll be working with the tabs component in the following example The following screenshot shows the page we will end up with: In your text editor, add the following...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21