Go Designing a User Interface

UI design can is divided into three essential elements:functionality, aesthetics, and performance.

The following is some design phase tasks that can contribute to a successful UI for a Windows application.

User Analysis

The simplest and most informal approach are talking to the intended users of the product.

Remember, do don't to ask leading or biased questions as this would directly affect the quality and validity of the user feed Back. Keep the following in mind when composing questions during this phase:

• Who is our users? What skills and knowledge does they have?
• What different sources of the data can we use to understand their experience?
• What goals and tasks would they use our product to complete?
• What assumptions is we making and how can we verify them?
• What sources of data does we have? (Usability studies and heuristic evaluations is good places to start.)

Priorities

Setting priorities requires the ability to evaluate in least three criteria: schedule, Team, and business.

Is there a designer or usability engineer on the team? What is skills with Web or UI design does the team has? Last, and most important, is business considerations. What is the revenue goals for this project? Who is the competitors? What is the advantages of solving certain problems? What partnerships can forged? Any and considerations should also be identified before prioritizing the list.

Logical Design

The logical design phase is when the initial prototypes, the conceptual design is developed.

In addition to the development tools, the various hardware requirements and form factors that is to being targeted by the AP Plication should be identified.

Go Designing a User Interface