Module 4.1

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Vicente Drei

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  • User interface (UI) design is the process designers use to build interfaces in software or computerized devices, focusing on looks or style.
  • Designers aim to create interfaces which users find easy to use and pleasurable
  • Graphical user interfaces (GUIs)—Users interact with visual representations on digital control panels. A computer’s desktop is a GUI
  • Voice-controlled interfaces(VUIs)—Users interact with these through their voices. Most smart assistants—e.g., Siri on iPhone and Alexa on Amazon devices—are VUIs.
  • Gesture-based interfaces— Users engage with 3D design spaces through bodily motions: e.g., in virtual reality (VR) games.
  • USER FAMILIARITY - The interface should be based on user-oriented terms and concepts rather than computer concepts
  • CONSISTENCY - The system should display an appropriate level of consistency. Commands and menus should have the same format, command punctuation should be similar, etc.
  • MINIMAL SURPRISE - If a command operates in a known way, the user should be able to predict the operation of comparable commands
  • RECOVERABILITY - The system should provide some resilience to user errors and allow the user to recover from errors. This might include an undo facility, confirmation of destructive actions, 'soft' deletes, etc.
  • USER GUIDANCE - Some user guidance such as help systems, on-line manuals, etc. should be supplied
  • USER DIVERSITY - Interaction facilities for different types of user should be supported. For example, some users have seeing difficulties and so larger text should be available
  • Information presentation is concerned with presenting system information to system users
  • User Analysis - Understand what the users will do with the system;
  • Interface Evaluation - Experiment with these prototypes with users.
    • System Prototyping - Develop a series of prototypes for experiment.
  • Task analysis - Models the steps involved in completing a task.
  • Interviewing and questionnaires - Asks the users about the work they do.
  • Ethnography - Observes the user at work.
  • The aim of prototyping is to allow users to gain direct experience with the interface. Without such direct experience, it is impossible to judge the usability of an interface.