GBDA 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: User Interface Design, Graphical User Interface, User Interface

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Global Business and Digital Arts
• Course: GBDA 103
• Professor: Karin Schmidlin

Document Summary

Eg. when you turn on the audio on your phone, it buzzes. Or picking a password, setting an alarm: give feedback (for example password creating tells you if it"s weak with wording and bar image) Use visual feedback (don"t make people read too much, but let them know why they are getting the error: human touch always important. Eg. nice looking error messages that impersonate human feelings. Humans connect to icons: delightful details eg. if you search kerning on google, everything is kerned on the web page, affordance what a product can do. Eg. for a cup, the affordance is to pour something in it and pick it up: signifier a subtle hint of its function. Eg. the apple ipad always had water in the background because it signified people to swipe: perceived affordance. How the user thinks the product might work. Input controls buttons, text fields, check boxes, etc. Information components tooltips, progress bars, notifications, etc.