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User Interface And Its Usability

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User Interface and its usability Brief/Introduction User interface means the interaction between a user and a computer system and how well they co-operate and understand each other and make it satisfying for the users to use the system. One main function for the user interface usability is to have characteristics. In this main function, there are eight characteristics to user interface usability and they are clear, concise, familiar, responsive, consistent, attractive, efficient and forgiving. Clear The word clear is very important on the user interface. It means that it needs to be easy for the user to use the system and understand what it is. One of the examples is the image shown on the right side of this document. It shows one of the …show more content…

If it’s explained too much, the user will have to spend time reading and get bored of it. Another word you can use instead of concise is clarity. One of the good examples of websites that use concise user interface is Google maps. It shows every place clearly and it is efficient to use. https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@-43.5084463,172.5754581,18z  I used this website link shown here where I use snip tool to snip the same place and zoom out more and snip again to see what the difference is. This image on the right shows the map of Burnside High School and the places around it and I snipped it in maps version rather than satellite version because it is much easier to see the names and its organized. This image has lots of detailed information on each place and each road has names. This second image is the same place but I zoom out. It shows less detail than the previous image. On the first image of Google maps, it showed Aurora centre which is part of Burnside high school but on the 2nd image there is only school name shown and a little bit more important places around it. This 3rd image of Google maps shown on the right side of this word document is the same place but I zoom out even more than the 2nd image and there is a big difference. Because there are more places, it is not possible to fit all the information in a

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