Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Important traits of common good UI

Important traits of common good UI which will be help you to test the UIs in your projects.

Check whether the following features exist in your GUIs

*Is the UI clean, unobtrusive, not busy?
*The UI shouldn’t get in the way of what you want to do.
*The functions you need or response your looking for should be obvious and be there when you expect them.
*Is the UI organized and laid out well?
*Does It allow you to easily get from one function to another?
*Is what to do next obvious?
*At any point can you decide to do nothing or even back up or back out?
*Are your inputs acknowledged?
*Do the menus or windows go too deep?
*Is there excessive functionality?
*Does It attempt to do too much?
*Do too many features complicate your work?
*Do you feel like your getting information overload?
*If all else fails, does the help system really help you?

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