A practitioners approach, 7e mcgrawhill, 2009 slides 2009 by roger pressman. Chapter 12 user interface design ppt video online download. This document represents a compilation of fundamental principles for designing user interfaces, which have been drawn from various books on interface design, as well as my own experience. Bridging the gap from user requirements to design considers the analysis activity for interfaces and the transition to design tasks. When you design the user interface to a computer system, you decide which screens the system will show, what exactly will be in each screen and how it will look. Requirements analysis should make minimal assumptions about the system design. User interface ui design focuses on anticipating what users might need to do and ensuring that the interface has elements that are easy to access, understand, and use to facilitate those actions.
Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces versus usability testing. The sixth edition continues to lead the way in software engineering. The goal of user interface design is to make the users interaction as simple and efficient as possible, in terms of accomplishing. Usercentred design is an approach to ui design where the needs of the user are paramount and where the user is involved in the design process.
A new part 4 on web engineering presents a complete engineering approach for the analysis, design, and testing of web applications, increasingly important. Mcgrawhill, 2005 introduction five notable design quotes questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point. User interface design ui or user interface engineering is the design of user interfaces for machines and software, such as computers, home appliances, mobile devices, and other electronic devices, with the focus on maximizing usability and the user experience. Chapter 12 user interface analysis and design source. User interface design is fundamental to the success of this approach, yet there is a lack of consolidated principles on how such an interface should be implemented. The potential class will be useful during analysis only if information about it must be remembered so that the system can function. User interface design in software engineering videos. Graphical user interfaces guis have helped to eliminate many of the most horrific interface problems however, some are still difficult to learn, hard to use, confusing, counterintuitive, unforgiving, and frustrating user interface. User can manipulate and control the software as well as hardware by means of user interface. User interface design a software engineering perspective soren lauesen harlow, england london new york boston san francisco toronto. User interface design software engineering youtube. The designer needs to ensure that the system has adequate usability it must do what is required and be easy to use.
The user must select either normal or abnormal from findings. Process improvement pptx funny 0 interesting 0 cool 0 email thisblogthis. Iterative design offers a way to manage the inherent risk in user interface design. A uml interface stereotype may be used to define interfaces. Chapter 12 user interface analysis and design introduction golden rules of user interface design reconciling four different models user interface analysis user interface design user interface evaluation example user interfaces source. This fact should not be surprising, because before starting implementation, analysis and design are fundamental stages in software engineering. Ui patterns is a growing collection of user interface design principles and user interface usability patterns present on. The design of interfaces between software components the design of interfaces between the software and other nonhuman producers and consumers of information the design of the interface between a human and the computer. Envisioning work and technology in system development is one of the first books to present the subject of scenarios in userinterface design. This chapter compares 17 evaluations of the same user interface, a hotel booking system for hotel pennsylvania, new york. Work is carefully and continuously saved, with full option for the user to undo any activity at any time.
This book shows you how to design the user interface in a systematic and practical way. Figure 1 measurement process lifecycle the first stage of measurement process, called initiation, is described in chapter 2 in. For the radiologist to sign, both the chest xray indication and chest xray findings pages must be completed. User interface design umd department of computer science. Lecture notes user interface design and implementation. Pressman ch 12 user interface design graphical user.
Fall 2014, some slides courtesy of joan smith, roger pressman, ian. Today, user interface is found at almost every place where digital technology exists, right from computers, mobile phones, cars, music players, airplanes, ships etc. Designing the user interface is a key part in the development of any computer system. Chapter 11 interface design department of software engineering. Chapter 9 design engineering introduction design quality design concepts the design model source. User interface is the frontend application view to which user interacts in order to use the software. Software engineering, 6th edition, ian sommerville, addisonwesley, isbn 0209815x. Now compare these examples of poor design to a far better graphic user interface. User interface design the design of computers, appliances, machines, mobile communication devices, software applications and websites with the focus on users experience interaction user interface design the goal is to make users interaction as simple and efficient as possible in terms of accomplishing user goals also called usercentered. If you know the url of a resource that should be added to these pages or have a correction to any link shown, please send us an email that descibes the site and provides a complete. Most of these principles can be applied to either commandline or graphical environments.
Choosing interface elements users have become familiar with interface elements acting in a certain way, so try to be consistent and predictable in. Ian sommerville 2000 software engineering, 6th edition. Programming in java 2004, paper 1, q10 software engineering and design 2003 paper 10, q12 and 2004 paper 11, q11 additional topics 2000, paper 7, q. Software engineering user interface design geeksforgeeks. A software engineering view of user interface design. Design model a design realization of the user model. Object modeling using uml, use case diagram, class diagram, interaction diagrams. Pressman is an internationally recognized authority in software process improvement and software engineering technologies.
Introduction four different models come into play when a user interface is analyzed and designed user profile model established by a human engineer or software engineer design model created by a software engineer implementation model created by the software implementers users mental model developed by the user when interacting with the application the role of the interface designer is to reconcile these differences and derive a consistent representation of the interface 14. The most important usability heuristics are related to measurable user interface and software properties which the developer can use in the design process. Pressman for nonprofit educational use only may be. Aspectoriented software engineering pptx chapter 22. A practitioners approach has been the best selling guide to software engineering for students and industry professionals alike. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. These slides are designed to accompany software engineering. Effective applications and services perform a maximum of work, while requiring a minimum of information from users. Software should have an appropriate user interface and documentation attributes of a wellengineered portability. Chapter 12 user interface design presentation transcript. In iterative design, the software is refined by repeated trips around a design cycle.
Software engineering ii 2005, paper 2, q8 some components had previously been taught elsewhere in the tripos. Gui can be a combination of both hardware and software. But the requirements definition must be consistent with computing technology and the resources available. Today, user interface is found at almost every place where digital technology exists, right from. I was curious about gui design patterns, so i searched and got some information, including a list of ui patterns for the web. Ssooffttwwaarree uusseerr iinntteerrffaaccee ddeessiiggnn user interface is the frontend application view to which user interacts in order to use the software.
Includes relations to an environment and construction principles to be used in design of software components. User interface design fundamentals of software engineering. Design patterns a design pattern is a way of reusing abstract knowledge about a problem and its solution. The model is used to evaluate suitability of proposed productsystem communicate proposed product to others an engineering design process describes a set of steps for constructing an engineering design. Course informationsyllabus pdf guidelines for all assignments pdf book. Topics covered user interface design principles user interaction information presentation. An engineering design is a model of the product or structure to be engineered. To suggest some general design principles for user interface design. The paper discusses how the software engineer may design for good usability. Pressman, software engineering practitioners approach, tmh. The large buttons and userfriendly instructions make this a gui that you would want to model in your own design.
User interface design department of biology emory university. User interface design in software engineering chapter summary. The aim of this chapter is to sensitise software engineers to key issues underlying the design rather than the implementation of user interfaces. User interface design designing effective interfaces for software systems importance of user interface 2 system users often judge a system by its interface rather than its functionality a poorly designed interface can cause a user to make catastrophic errors poor user interface design is the reason why so many software systems. Chapter 14 of user interface design a software engineering perspective, addisonwesley 2005, reprint 2007.
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