10MCA455 – PRINCIPLES OF USER INTERFACE AND DESIGN

Unit 1 : Introduction
Q1) What is measurable human performance in the use of computer and information
system?
Q2) What are the goals is system engineering in UI? Explain.
Q3) What are the Usability goals and goals for requirement analysis ?
Q4) Explain clearly the goals of user interface design.
Q5) What are the eight golden rules of interface design?
Q6) What are the goals of user interface design? Discuss all usability motivations.
Q7) Explain all the guidelines for user interface and design.
Q8) Explain in details theories object action interface model.
Q9) Write a short on 1. Usability requirement 2. Usability Measure
Q10) Write a short on 1. Universal Usability 2. Usability Motivations
Q11) Explain Personality differences and International diversity.
Unit 2 : Development Processes
Q1) Explain clearly the terms standardization, integration, consistency and probability.
Q2) Explain briefly the techniques used for getting user interaction on the display
Q3) Explain briefly the 5 primary interaction styles.
Q4) Explain the 5 measurable factors to evaluate user interface.
Q5) How human diversity affects the user interface design process?
Q6) List the difference diversities that challenge the interactive system designers.
Q7) Explain the golden rules of interface design.
Q8) Describes the FOUR pillars of design.
Q9) With a suitable diagram, discuss the three pillars of design.
Q10) Explain different stages of software development methodology.
Q11) What are the varieties of review methods? Explain briefly.
Q12) What are the goals of survey? Give brief explanation.
Unit 3: Evaluating Interface Designs
Q1) Explain the logical user centered interface design (LUCID) methodology.
Q2) What is LUCID? Explain briefly the six stages of it.
Write short note on Legal Issues of user interface.
Q3) What is the survey? What are its goals? Mention the commonly used scale for
surveys.
Q4) Draw and explain transition diagram for simple menu system.
Q5) Explain briefly the factors to be considered while designing remote direct
manipulation environments.
Q6) What are the varieties of review methods?
Q7) Which are the various design specification method? Explain any one of them.
Q8) Briefly explain various design specification methods.
Q9) Discuss problems with direct manipulation systems.
Q10) Explain LUCID development methodologies.
Q11) Explain the features of interface building tools.
Q12) Mention the evaluation techniques during active use. Discuss in details.
Q13) Discuss briefly about all the specification methods.
Unit 4: Interaction Styles
Q1) Discuss the different boxes, naming and abbreviation, command menus.
Q2) Give the important guidelines for form filling design.
Q3) Bring out the different methods of expert reviews.
Q4) Briefly explain the different specification systems.
Q5) Explain 5 examples of direct manipulation system.
 Q6) Explain the guidelines for menu selection.
Q7) Write short note on : Objectives of data entry.
Q8) What guidelines for dialog box designing?
Q9) What strategy is to followed for naming chart of a simplified bank transactions
systems showing grouping of states.
Q10) Give any five examples for direct manipulation with brief explanation.
Q11) What are guidelines for dialog box designing?
Q12) Explain briefly different types of menus.
Q13) Give any ten important guide lines for form filling design.
Q14) Discuss in details about direct manipulation. Explain any two examples of direct
manipulations.
Q15) Give internal layout of dialog box guidelines.
Q16) Explain briefly about single menus.
Q17) Explain the of dialog box design.
Unit 5: Command and Natural Languages
Q1) Discuss direct and indirect control pointing devices.
Q2) What are the limitations of short term and working memory? Discuss with an
example.
Q3) Explain the important of natural language in computing.
Q4) Discuss briefly about pointing devices and pointing tasks.
Q5) Explain the role of natural language computing.
Explain abbreviation strategies and guidelines for using abbreviations.
Q6) Explain any two display technologies used in display layouts.
Unit 6: Design Issues
Q1) What are the categories of principles that reveal the complexity of designers task?
Q2) Explain the guidelines for color in interactive interface.
Q3) What are the recommendations that are followed for the development of effective
messages? explain
Q4) Describe in brief guidelines we must follow using colors.
Q5) Write in details models of response time impacts and variability in response time.
Q6) What are the guidelines/ recommendations will you follow to create error
messages. Explain.
Q7) Write a short note on 1. Participatory design 2. Window design
Q8) Write a short note on 1. Expert reviews. 2. Social impact statement for early design
review
Unit 7: User Manuals, Online Help, and Tutorials
Q1) Distinguish paper versus on line manuals.
Q2) Compare and contrast reading from paper versus display.
Q3) Explain the different usages of online facility.
Q4) Discuss multiple windows design in details.
Q5) Explain briefly the concept of multiple window design.
Q6) Write a short note on : 1. World wide web , 2. Hypertext and hyper media
Q7) Explain the OAI model explanation of the Direct Manipulation.
List any 4 problems of direct manipulation and explain any one in brief
Q8) Explain 3D-Interface in detail with an example
Q9) Explain various methods involved in ‘Evaluation during use’ of User Interface
Design.
Q10) Explain preparation of printed manuals.
Unit 8: Information Search and Visualization
Q1) What are three major problems with hypermedia?
Q2) Discuss the characteristics of good web page design.
Q3) Propose and discuss some ways the web may be made more accessible to the
handicapped, either through browser design or web page design
Q4) Some of the favorite techniques of web pages these days include automatic
scrolling text boxes, moving marquees, and constantly running animations (e.g. for
icons). Discuss these features in terms of web design guidelines
Q5) Describe the four-phase framework to clarify user interfaces for textual search
Q6) Describe the time-space matrix traditionally used to decompose cooperative
systems. Include an example for each "cell" in your answer
Q7) Discuss various categories of functional situations where natural language
processing is used.
Q8) Explain different command organization strategies that the designer can follow
Q9) Write a detailed note on ‘Combinations of Multiple Menus’
Q10) Describe in brief the Virtual & Augmented reality concepts
Q11) What is Tele-operation?