Posts Tagged ‘graphical user interface’
Improved Search with Ipad and Iphone
February 14th, 2010 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
The Ipad is something different. This device defers from other tablets especially because of its interface and usability behavior. It’s also different from the Iphone or other smart phones and mobile devices because of its size. One of Apple’s goals, I think, is to replace our portable devices such as laptops and notebooks, and not the iPhone or other smart phones.
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SortFix Interface – Past, Present & Future
August 2nd, 2009 | Author: Amir Lavi CEO
About three years ago, in the early stages of SortFix, we started usability testing the SortFix Search User Interface (SUI) with our parents, sisters, brothers, and friends. We implemented the system as a program and our algorithms were calculated on the users’ computers.
Due to the fact that we didn’t have any funding back then, we had to be present at every search session with any family member or friend.
Our usability testing method back then went something like this: We gave our “subjects” several search tasks. We sat by them quietly as they undertook the search. Without helping them in any way, we studied the way they searched, observed where they ran into difficulties, and saw what part of our SUI wasn’t clear enough. We asked them questions and worked to improve the system’s interface bit by bit. Our method wasn’t particularly efficient, but at the time, it was cost-effective!
SortFix SUI Concept Sketches
Then we decided to upload the SortFix SUI to an online environment and test our system on even more users. We asked our family and friends to tell their friends and families to start using our new tool. At this point we got a lot more feedback. We had a lot of debugging to do, but it was worth it. Instead of doing a focus group on just 30 users or so, we actually reached 10 times more — without paying a dime.
SortFix SUI Concept Sketches
The Search Is On: Search Engine GUIs
June 25th, 2009 | Author: Amir Lavi CEO
In these days of the Internet, everybody knows that good design doesn’t necessarily mean the website is good. Websites must also provide an intuitive and simple way for the user to interact and navigate.
The most important innovation in the field of human-computer interaction is the graphical user interface, a.k.a. GUI, which has become the de facto industry standard for communication between us and computers.
GUIs are not only implemented in common operating systems such as Windows and Mac OS, but are used to operate and control handheld devices, portable media players, gaming consoles and much, much more.
From CLI to GUI
Having emerged as an alternative for solving the steep learning curve of command line interfaces (CLIs), GUIs have made computers – and computing — far more accessible in terms of ease of use. CLIs required commands or series of commands to be typed on the keyboard.
MS-DOS's Command Line.
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