Transcript Appropriate Appearance - University of East London

Appropriate Appearance
Presenting Information
•The ways you present information on the screen depend on the type of information:
such as Text, Numbers, Maps, Tables,
provided with the technology available to present it. Character display line drawing,
graphics, virtual display, on the purpose for which is being used.
•The purpose might be complex numerical data or 3d surfaces or organisational
structure, it is the principle of matching presentation to purpose remains.
There is an advantage when presenting information in
an interactive system is that it is easy for the user to
choose among several representations whereby
making it possible to achieve different goals. So we
can plan for a range of possible uses.
Aesthetics and utility
Designing a pretty good interface is not necessarily a
good interface. Based on or determined by beauty
rather than practical or users needs. However good
graphic design and attractive displays can increase
user’s satisfaction and thus improve productivity.
•Inconsistency in an interface appearance makes it messy and may cause
problems.
•i.e. telephone style and calculator style numeric keypads, under stress it
would be easy to miss key when swapping between these.
• In multimedia systems good the backdrop
behind text must have low contrast in order
to leave the text readable; this is not the
case with graphic designers may include
complex and excessive backgrounds
because they look good the results are
impressive, but completely unusable!
Colors and 3d
One of the worst colours in many interfaces is the
appalling use of colour. This is because monitors only
support a limited range of primary colours and over
use of different fonts in word processors and overuse
of different colours can be distracting