12.06 Modern UI

Golden Rules:

• Reduce the user's memory load
• Make the interface consistent (just like Im consistent with your mother)

Key Features:

1. Placing the User in control

   • Defining Interaction modes so that the user is not forced into unnecessary actions
   • Provide Flexible interaction
   • Allow undo's and interrupts in user interaction
   • Allow the interaction to be customized for advanced and beginners alike
   • Hide technical internals from casuals

2. Reducing the User's Memory Load

   • Reducing the demand for short term memory
   • Establish meaningful defaults
   • define intuitive shortcuts
   • base visual layout from real world metaphors
   • Disclose information in a progressive manner

3. Making the interface consistent

   • Maintain consistency across a family of applications
   • Avoid changing past interactive models that have created user experiences unless there's a compeling reason

4. Effective WebApp Interfaces

   • Be visually apparent and forgiving
   • Enabling users to quickly see their options and grasp how to achieve goals and do their work
   • not concerning the user with inner workings

5. Aesthetic Design considerations:

   • Effective use of whitespaces
   • Emphasizing content
   • Use layouts
   • Group navigation content and function on the page
   • strategic useage of color to enhance usability

Tags

#modern-ui #unit-3