Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Monday, May 09, 2005

GUI Design Studio

GUI Design Studio is a graphical user interface design tool for Microsoft Windows that you can use to rapidly create demonstration prototypes without any coding or scripting.

However, it is important to understand the limitations of these prototypes. This is a user interface design tool not an application development tool. The only behaviour that is currently supported is the ability to navigate between windows; to click on a screen element and make another modal or modeless window, panel or other item appear or disappear. This includes the creation of cascading menus, popup modal dialogs, combo box drop-downs, tabbed interfaces and many other idioms.

Beyond such behaviour, the controls themselves are non-interactive. So, for example, you can't type into edit boxes or change the check state of check boxes. To do so would be somewhat pointless without coded functionality to act on the data or state changes. Such functionality is beyond the scope of the tool. (Via ru_ucdesign)

GUI Design Studio - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

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