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	User interface design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		User interface design or user interface engineering is the design of computers, gadgets, appliances, machines, mobile communication devices, software applications, and websites with the focus on the user's experience and interaction.
		User Interface design is involved in a wide range of projects from mall kiosks to software applications to car navigation systems to e-commerce sites; all of these projects have some things in common yet also require some unique skills and knowledges.
		As a result, user interface designers tend to specialize in certain types of projects and have skills centered around their expertise, whether that be software design, web design, or industrial design.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_interface_engineering (549 words)

	Software Engineering for Usability - 6. Methodologies and Processes for UI Development
		But their definition of a user as "a system of distinct and related human behaviors, identifiable as the sequence of states of a person interacting with a computer to perform work, and with a purposeful (intentional) transformation of objects in a domain" seems to de-humanize the whole process.
		The "use context model" is an abstract model of the architecture of a proposed user interface.
		The developer builds a semantic model of the interface and then tools are used at different stages of development to automate code generation, etc. The authors claim that their tools can be used to capture even complicated design rules and exceptions.
	hayne.net /HCI/Seu/SE_for_usability-6.html (2440 words)

	User Interface Design
		Human Interface Technology Lab (HIT Lab) is a research and development lab at the University of Washington that focuses on human computer interfaces and virtual interface technology.
		Interface Design Handbook is a practical introduction to interface design Written by Clayton Lewis and John Rieman at the University of Colorado.
		The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
	www.usernomics.com /user-interface-design.html (2963 words)

	Search User Interface and User Experience - SearchTools Report
		Both these pieces provide simple rules for search interfaces, with results of research showing that users are impatient and quick to give up searching when they encounter problems, type very short words, and rarely look beyond the first page of search results.
		User Interfaces and Visualization in Modern Information Retrieval, chapter written by UC Berkeley professor Marti Hearst, provides a valuable academic study of interfaces for information retrieval and searching, including graphical overviews and visualization.
		User Interface Engineering on the topic of designing sites which provide good user feedback and "scent".
	www.searchtools.com /info/user-interface.html (2973 words)

	Interview > Spool Vision: An Eye on User Data
		We have also found that users, when trying to accomplish their mission, tend to follow "a scent" and when they loose the scent, they fall into predictable behaviors, such as randomly clicking on links or hitting the back button.
		User Interface Engineering is the largest usability firm in North America.
		We've learned that users act differently when the topic is of deep interest to them than when it is only of passing interest or they are doing it as a favor to you.
	www.webword.com /interviews/spool.html (3191 words)

	Database Interface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Overview No matter how complete, organized, and well maintained a database is, it's useless without a user interface. Good user interfaces allow people to find the information they need quickly and with a minimal amount of interaction; bad user interfaces make it difficult or even impossible to locate and display information stored in the database.
		Follow the links below for examples of good and bad database interface design, hints and tips on how to design database user interfaces, and resources for help on database interface design.
		User Interface Engineering includes design tips for both database interfaces, and general Web pages.
	www.infoweblinks.com /content/databaseinterface.htm (397 words)

	Information Visualization - Flashmagazine
		Users may struggle to get at a reasonably narrow dataset, and fail to get insight into what the data is telling them.
		If the user wants to look at homes within 30 miles of work for her and her spouse, homes that are 10-20 miles away might be labeled with a yellow square, with homes more than 20-30 miles away as green squares.
		Eventually, through a process of taking big pictures of specific variables and narrowing the scope, a user might arrive at a small data set of homes that best fit her criteria, evaluation each of those in detail.
	www.flashmagazine.com /418.htm (1064 words)

	Usable Interface : Usability and User Interface Design Consulting
		Usable Interface is an independent consulting company specializing in website usability and user interface design.
		Kyle is a member of the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) and she is the President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI).
		She is passionate about the continued growth of the user experience design community.
	www.usableinterface.com /company/index.php (322 words)

	UCD for Software Engineering
		In particular, we discuss how pattern can be engineered in such a way they can be an ideal vehicle for gathering best design practices and user experiences, and transferring by means of CASE tools the knowledge of usability experts to software engineers unfamiliar user interfaces design.
		These engineers need training and effective design about how to build usable and useful user interfaces, but the scarcity of user interface specialists is correlated with the lack of design tool ready to be used by user interface developers unfamiliar with usability engineering.
		Industry user interface and human factors specialists who wish to disseminate their expertise throughout organizations by presenting tutorials on selected topics.
	hci.cs.concordia.ca /www/patterns (1356 words)

	Faculty & Staff : The Gordon Institute : School of Engineering : Tufts University
		His professional experience prior to the founding of User Interface Engineering included three years at Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) where he was involved with human factors engineering on that company's first entry into the PC market.
		Under Spool's leadership, User Interface Engineering has grown to be one of this country's leading usability research firms.
		A recognized authority on user interface design and human factors in computing, Spool is a regular tutorial speaker at the annual CHI conference and the Society for Technical Communications conferences around the country.
	gordon.tufts.edu /progFacSpool.htm (299 words)

	adaptive path » jared spool on user research methods
		The users are let completely in on the whole thing in terms of they understand why we’re there and what we’re doing.
		Theater is also very much about an experience, so quality theater people understand the experience design in that regard, and they understand elements of the user design, such as the illusion, and subtlety, and the back-channel communication sort of stuff.
		They had created some simple tasks, and one of the tasks was basically asking users to come to the site and buy a bookcase they might want to buy.
	www.adaptivepath.com /publications/essays/archives/000516.php (1261 words)

	Design patterns (User experience design resources)
		This paper explores how patterns for user interface design must be structured in order to be effective and usable tools for designers.
		Reusable components, known as user interface patterns, considerably simplify the development of consistent and ergonomic user interfaces.
		The remainder of the article shows how the patterns are derived from generic user tasks and then mapped on the user interface.
	www.deyalexander.com.au /resources/uxd/design-patterns.html (2896 words)

	Silenroc - User Interface Engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The links here were mentioned in the User Interface Design thread on the delphi non-technical newsgroup during july 1999.
		On of the interesting contributions to the thread is about Pie Charts, with more info at the homepage of the author Don Hopkins.
		User Interface Engineering: interesting information on user interfaces on a somewhat badly designed website.
	silenroc.com /uie (150 words)

	Ergoworld - HCI/Usability
		AMODEUS seeks to develop interdisciplinary approaches to studying interactions between users and systems and to establish routes through which such approaches might best be transferred to, and applied by, interface designers.
		Promotes out-of-the-box thinking about truly next-generation user interfaces that are designed for new types of users and computing devices, and go beyond the WIMP method that most current interfaces are based on.
		The User Interfaces group is part of MSR's Advanced Interactivity and Intelligence research theme.
	www.interface-analysis.com /ergoworld/hci.htm (1516 words)

	InformationWeek.com
		The engineers learned that customers were logging on to three mainframe systems to perform even simple tasks.
		They responded with a graphical user interface that corrals data from the three systems into a single application, which the company is rolling out now.
		Just as important, integration between an application's user interface and its back-end data-processing portions has moved to the fore of usability concerns.
	www.informationweek.com /831/usability.htm (955 words)

	Graphical user interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later IBM and Microsoft took aboard many of Apple's ideas to develop the Common User Access specifications, which formed the basis of the user interface found in Microsoft Windows, IBM OS/2 Presentation Manager, and the Unix Motif toolkit and window manager.
		These ideas evolved to create the interface found in current versions of the Windows operating system, as well as inspiring new features in Mac OS X and various desktop environments for Unix-like systems.
		For example, user switching is in the form of a rotating cube and window management in the form of Exposé, which resizes windows on-the-fly, whilst updating live content such as playing QuickTime movies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graphical_user_interface (1528 words)

	EServer TC Library: Publishers: User Interface Engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Web designers believe there are some people who always rely on the search engine to reach their target content.
		When we watched users in their native habitats, we learned a lot about how they use documentation and some of the reasons they don't use it.
		The most valuable asset of a successful design team is the information they have about their users.
	tc.eserver.org /publisher/User_Interface_Engineering (623 words)

	SIS 563 - Web Design Myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		User Interface Engineering observed the struggles and successes of over fifty people as they searched for information on nine popular web sites.
		The more difficult the text, by standard reading measures, the easier it is for users to find what they're looking for.
		Sites that users say they like best are not necessarily the sites they can use best, in contrast to application software where users like best the software they can use best.
	www.it.utk.edu /~jklittle/sis563/myths.html (332 words)

	Graphical User Interface (Linux Reviews)
		Many research groups in North America and Europe are currently working on the Zooming User Interface (ZUI) which is a logical advancement on the GUI, blending some 3D movement with 2D or "2.5D" vectorial objects.
		Applications may also provide both interfaces, and when they do the GUI is usually a WIMP wrapper around the CLI version.
		However Linux already has a real 3D user interface available through the XGL architecture (which like Quartx Extreme also uses OpenGL), as a rotatable cube capable of displaying four desktops, one on each side, and also has eye-candy features similar to OS X. edit] Individual elements of user interfaces
	linuxreviews.org /dictionary/Graphical_User_Interface (1300 words)

	Usability Evaluation: Trends
		Ideally, modern user interface development tools and techniques are used to implement a prototype or the actual system, based on a requirements-driven design specification.
		From a user organization point of view, the primary goal of usability testing is to quickly assess the usability of products being proposed for use within the organization.
		The field of usability engineering is currently experiencing a period of increased visibility, accelerated growth and exciting innovation.
	www.targetsoft-ware.com /aiaa.htm (1905 words)

	EDUCAUSE \| Resources \| Resource Center \| User Interface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The user interface is the aggregate of means by which people (the users) interact with a particular machine, device, computer program or other complex tool (the system).
		A User Interface (UI) is the interface by which a computer user is able to interact with the computer.
		It describes the way that the user uses input devices such as keyboards and mice, and the way the information is portrayed on screen or on the output device.
	www.educause.edu /Browse/645?PARENT_ID=327 (742 words)

	definition: perceived affordance \| Motive Glossary
		In screen-based communications, the concept of perceived affordance is useful when designing or evaluating a graphical user interface (GUI).
		Affordance is a term created by the perceptual psychologist J. Gibson to refer to the qualities of the physical world that suggest the possibility of interaction relative to the ability of an actor (person or animal) to interact.
		Based on the original definition and fundamental properties, affordance, in relation to interface design, relates more to (physical) input devices: mouse, keyboard, stylus, etc. When discussing the qualities of a graphical user interface, the preferred term is perceived affordance.
	www.motive.co.nz /glossary/perceived-affordance.php (541 words)

	Usability, Web Design, and Information Architecture Articles - User Interface Engineering - UIE
		In this article, Jared describes the critical relationship between current knowledge (what the user knows when they encounter the design) and target knowledge (what the user needs to know to accomplish their goal), showing the two conditions that lead to an interface users will perceive as intuitive.
		It's essential for interface designers to understand the gamut of contexts that can occur, thereby ensuring they create designs that are usable no matter what's happening around the user.
		When we watched 30 users trying to search various sites for content they were interested in, we noticed a peculiar phenomenon: The more times the users searched, the less likely they were to find what they wanted.
	www.uie.com /articles (5286 words)

	User Interface 6 East -- Hotel & Trip Planning
		User Interface 6 East will be held at the Cambridge Marriott in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		Mention the User Interface conference to receive the discount.
		If you would like information about User Interface Engineering, please visit www.uie.com.
	www.arcamedia.com /demos/uie/travel.html (441 words)

	LukeW: Interface Design Guidelines & Terms
		Human interface design principles and concepts, when to to use them, and when not to.
		Discusses the human interface design principles that describe key considerations for the design decisions you make for your product.
		From the designer of the original Mosaic interface (Netscape and Explorer's interface are carbon copies), this hard-to-find article introduces many issues Web designers still struggle with today.
	www.lukew.com /resources/links_guidelines.html (562 words)

	User Interface Software Engineering Position - PACS jobs
		A well established client has asked us to find a Senior User Interface Software Engineer, to drive new development surrounding thin and smart client apps.
		This is a very, very successful firm, currently growing at approximately 100% a year in terms of revenue.
		We are searching for a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience developing thin and smart client applications on the Windows platform.
	www.zibagroup.com /96-job.aspx (308 words)

	User Interface Engineering - Usability Research, Training, and Events - UIE
		User Interface Engineering - Usability Research, Training, and Events - UIE
		For this three-day event, you'll meet the pioneers and world-class designers behind today's most successful web apps and come away inspired to create amazing applications that will delight your users.
		In response to last week’s post on how long pages rule, Heidi Adkisson wrote a great post about how she’s seen users have trouble with long forms.
	www.uie.com (587 words)

	HCIRN > IFIP Working Group 2.7/13.4 on User Interface Engineering (WG2.7/13.4)
		IFIP Working Group 2.7/13.4 on User Interface Engineering (WG2.7/13.4) belongs to both IFIP Technical Committee 2 on Software: Theory and Practice (TC2) and IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human Computer Interaction (TC13).
		Its aim is "to investigate the nature, concepts and construction of user interfaces for software systems."
		"increase understanding of the development of user interfaces based on knowledge of system and user behaviour;
	www.hcirn.com /res/org/tc13wg4.php (117 words)

	Functioning Form - Event: User Interface 11 Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On October 11th I’ll be presenting a full day seminar at the User Interface 11 Conference in Cambridge, MA.
		The folks at User Interface Engineering have (of course) put together a great program that covers User Experience Design from Ajax to Usability.
		Functioning Form is published by LukeW Interface Designs © 1996-2006.
	www.lukew.com /ff/entry.asp?387 (347 words)

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