Design Elements: Toolbars, Palettes, Dialogue Boxes, Speech Interfaces, Look & Feel, Initi, Slides of Human Resource Management

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Toolbars

• long lines of icons …

… but what do they do?

• fast access to common actions

• often customizable:

• choose which toolbars to see
• choose what options are on it

Palettes and tear-off menus

• Problem menu not there when you want it
• Solution palettes – little windows of actions - shown/hidden via menu option e.g. available shapes in drawing package tear-off and pin-up menus - menu ‘tears off’ to become palette

interactivity

easy to focus on look

what about feel?

Speech–driven interfaces

• rapidly improving …

… but still inaccurate

• how to have robust dialogue?

… interaction of course!

e.g. airline reservation: reliable “yes” and “no”

• system reflects back its understanding “you want a ticket from New York to Boston?”

Initiative

• who has the initiative? old question–answer – computer WIMP interface – user
• WIMP exceptions … pre-emptive parts of the interface
• modal dialog boxes
  • come and won’t go away!
  • good for errors, essential steps
  • but use with care

Error and repair

can’t always avoid errors … … but we can put them right

make it easy to detect errors … then the user can repair them

hello, this is the Go Faster booking system what would you like? (user) I want to fly from New York to London you want a ticket from New York to Boston (user) no sorry, please confirm one at a time do you want to fly from New York (user) yes … … …

Experience, engagement and fun

designing experience

physical engagement

managing value