menus controls
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The document discusses different types of controls used in graphical user interfaces, including buttons, selection controls, entry fields, and displays. It covers imperative controls that perform actions, selective controls that allow toggling options on or off, and entry controls for entering bounded or unbounded text. The document also briefly mentions menus and design principles for ensuring intuitive interfaces.
menus controls
- 2. Controls
- 5. Grammar & Interface Design Verb Action Noun Object
- 6. 4 Types of Controls Imperative Selection Entry Display
- 7. Imperative Button Perform an action Butcon (button/icon) Hyperlinks
- 8. Do#it!# Do#it!# Do#it!# A B C Do it! D Button design & behavior - button look - mouseover behaviors
- 9. Selection Check box Toggle button/butcon Flip-flop Radio Combutcon Lists • drop-down • select multiple items ! !
- 10. ☑ vs.
- 11. flip-flop buttons :( vs.
- 12. Selection then: Imperative 1 2 or Selection + Imperative simultaneous
- 13. 1. then: Selection Imperative Highlight likely option :( :)
- 14. 2. simultaneous Selection + Imperative
- 15. Selection Check box Toggle button/butcon Flip-flop Radio Combutcon Lists • drop-down • select multiple items ! !
- 16. Entry Bounded Spinners Dials & sliders Unbounded - validation? ! !
- 17. bounded entry
- 18. Display Scrollbars • thumb Splitters
- 19. OS X Yosemite scrollbar design
- 20. mobile: to scrollbar or NOT?
- 21. Menus
- 22. Menus + - •Verbal descriptions •Educational •Slow, hidden
- 23. Menus Cascading Ribbon ! Bang Drop-down Pop-up
- 24. GUI elements menus controls = Language of the interface Do you speak interface?
- 25. GUI elements menus controls =L anguage of the interface Do you speak interface?
- 26. Stencils
- 28. Excise Working for the machine
- 29. 1. Don’t weld on training wheels 2. “pure” excise - let the machine decide 3. visual excise - ornamentation 4. Don’t stop the proceedings with idiocy 5. Don’t make users ask permission 6. Allow input whenever you have output 7. Don’t force users to go to another window to perform a function that affects the current window 8. Don’t force users to remember where they put things 9. Don’t force users to move & resize windows 10.Don’t force users to re-enter personal settings 11.Navigation is excise. Make it easier - how? A. Reduce number of places to go B. Provide signposts, overviews, mapping of controls to functions C. Match user needs D. Avoid hierarchies