Design idea: The development course of user interface (UI) in China

UI full Name User Interface, the Chinese name is "UI".

2000 into the domestic, the earliest professional UI company or our national software-Jinshan, said in 2000 has set up a Man-machine interface group, only 2 people. Jinshan Software's UI team is the industry's veritable Whampoa Military academy, cultivated today's rivers and lakes on a whole generation of design leaders, and their work has far-reaching impact on the domestic software users experience the overall level. Perhaps the early Kingsoft software users remember, then WPS and Jinshan Poison PA interface Design in the whole environment is the leading.

The Chinese version of the "Road to Software Innovation" published in February 2001 has emphasized the importance of interaction and interface in technical monographs, paving the way for a broad recognition of UI concepts. The writer's name is Alan Cooper, is it familiar? Yes, this book is the predecessor of the Interactive Design Road , which was published later in March 2006.

Between 2001 and 2003, the domestic and large companies have set up a UI position, the same period, many graphic design and web design practitioners also began to try to become a UI. Because at that time engaged in web design very depressed, the overall level is low, the market environment is bad.

With the launch of the Chinaui Forum in 2003, this concept began to grow in the field of digital design. As the first title of Chinaui website "Welcome to China's first UI design website", but what is UI? I guess not a few people were clear. In May of that year, the Tang Mu, which was transferred from Jinshan to Tencent, led the revolutionary interface upgrade in the development of QQ. The refreshing QQ interface has brought a great surprise to the fans and made a great improvement in appearance and humanization.

Since then, the UI-themed design-class sites have emerged. I was not really interested in the UI, thinking that I was engaged in two ways, but every day to see, hear the discussion and have to understand the relevant knowledge. From a conceptual standpoint, all software UI practitioners were supposed to be graphical user interface, or GUI, just a branch of the UI. So, I later wondered why there was no Web user interface? It can also be referred to as Wui.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface

a graphical user interface or GUI is a type of ' user interface item ' allows people to interact with programs I n more ways than typing such as computers; Hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable Media players or gaming devices; Household appliances and office equipment with images rather than text commands.

First of all, the concept of promotion to the industry's overall strength to promote the role, but because of the understanding of the concept of unclear, or even misleading, the vast majority of peers believe that "UI is equal to Web design", more people think that "UI is professional web design." To a large extent, influenced the web design mainstream aesthetic at that time, the so-called good "web" designed, either a picture mosaic of the plane, or by a variety of gorgeous UI controls piled up into the software skin, the slightest see any web design skills and connotations.

Note that the UI design of the software and the UI design of the Web page are completely two sets of knowledge systems. For the software UI, the designer is able to manipulate only the visual presentation layer, therefore, the basic software UI is a visual designer, and the Web site UI in the performance of the principle of a very different, not a visual designer imagination can be done, and is not seen that the resulting appearance can immediately be used on the page. The key page presentation layer also has a front-end concept, all interface control performance is implemented through the code, this is the Web end user experience Quality master.

For Internet products, there are peers that the real UI professional process, should be user research, requirements analysis, architecture design, interactive design, usability testing the whole process. I think it's outrageous, because the blurring of the conceptual hierarchy leads to a flaw in the understanding of the whole system. To the point cover, to cover the whole, and later the "interactive design" also go into this misunderstanding.

http://mashable.com/2009/01/09/user-experience-design/

It's not uncommon to confuse "user experience" with "user interface"-after all it's a big part of what users interact WI Th while experiencing digital products and services. But the UI is just one pieceof the puzzle.

In my current experience, I agree with the author's summary of the elements of user experience --Interface design is only a part of the frame layer, and the information design, navigation design and the user can really see and use the prototype. The typical Web UI in Web design is form, almost every system and platform, and it is the most difficult problem to deal with user interaction behavior.

GUI background designer to do the site, there is a very significant GUI style, I observed a lot of Chinese and foreign designers come to the conclusion of the work. Because of their lack of understanding of the principles of web construction, as well as their own output skills in the habit of differences caused. Of course, there are also a master, able to deal with the difference between the two. On the whole, because GUI and Wui each specialized system develops in depth the differentiation gradually, the top GUI master usually only concentrates on the GUI domain.