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User Interface Design

The document discusses user interface design, including the differences between text-based and graphical user interfaces. It describes common elements of graphical user interfaces like windows, icons, menus, and pointing devices. It also outlines some principles of user interface design such as structure, simplicity, visibility, feedback, and tolerance.

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User Interface Design

The document discusses user interface design, including the differences between text-based and graphical user interfaces. It describes common elements of graphical user interfaces like windows, icons, menus, and pointing devices. It also outlines some principles of user interface design such as structure, simplicity, visibility, feedback, and tolerance.

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User Interface Design

User Interface Design


◦ The visual part of a computer application or operating system through which a client interacts
with a computer or software.
◦ It determines how commands are given to the computer or the program and how data is
displayed on the screen.
Types of User Interface
◦ There are two main types of User Interface:
◦ Text-Based User Interface or Command Line Interface
◦ Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Text-Based User Interface:
◦  This method relies primarily on the keyboard.
◦ A typical example of this is UNIX.
Advantages
◦ Many and easier to customizations options.
◦ Typically capable of more important tasks.
Disadvantages
◦ Relies heavily on recall rather than recognition.
◦ Navigation is often more difficult.
Graphical User Interface (GUI):
◦ GUI relies much more heavily on the mouse.
◦ A typical example of this type of interface is any versions of the Windows operating systems.
Advantages
◦ Less expert knowledge is required to use it.
◦ Easier to Navigate and can look through folders quickly in a guess and check manner.
◦ The user may switch quickly from one task to another and can interact with several different
applications.
Disadvantages
◦ Typically decreased options.
◦ Usually less customizable. Not easy to use one button for tons of different variations.
GUI Characteristics
Characteristics Descriptions
Windows Multiple windows allow different
information to be displayed
simultaneously on the user's screen.
Icons Icons different types of information.
On some systems, icons represent files.
On other icons describes processes.
Menus Commands are selected from a menu
rather than typed in a command
language.
Pointing A pointing device such as a mouse is
used for selecting choices from a menu
or indicating items of interests in a
window.
Graphics Graphics elements can be mixed with
text or the same display.
UI Design Principles
◦ Structure: Design should organize the user interface purposefully, in the meaningful and
usual based on precise, consistent models that are apparent and recognizable to users, putting
related things together and separating unrelated things, differentiating dissimilar things and
making similar things resemble one another. The structure principle is concerned with overall
user interface architecture.
◦ Simplicity: The design should make the simple, common task easy, communicating clearly
and directly in the user's language, and providing good shortcuts that are meaningfully related
to longer procedures.
◦ Visibility: The design should make all required options and materials for a given function
visible without distracting the user with extraneous or redundant data.
◦ Feedback: The design should keep users informed of actions or interpretation, changes of
state or condition, and bugs or exceptions that are relevant and of interest to the user through
clear, concise, and unambiguous language familiar to users.
◦ Tolerance: The design should be flexible and tolerant, decreasing the cost of errors and
misuse by allowing undoing and redoing while also preventing bugs wherever possible by
tolerating varied inputs and sequences and by interpreting all reasonable actions.

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