User Interface Design

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User Interface Design

• Software Engineering (Pressman)
• Chapter 14

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User Interface Design

• Identify your users
• PS. Chapter 8
• Look at the generic tasks
• Communication
• Dialogue tasks
• Cognitive tasks
• Control tasks

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User Interface Design

• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Command line based interfaces
• Control buttons
• GUI

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User Interface Design

• Interface Design Models

Design perception
Designers (User model)
Design Model
Design Model
Design Model
System Image
System perception
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User Interface Design

• Interface Design Evaluation cycle

Preliminary design
Prototype 1
Prototype n
User evaluates interface
Design modifications are made
Evaluation is studied by designer
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User Interface Design

• Use the interface design guidelines