Week 5
User Interface Design
The user interface (UI) is the point that you designed software or solution to meet the end users, in UI design you should focus to provide a user-friendly environment that is easy for users to access and understand. Your UI brings together all the interaction design, visual design and information architecture.
Have a look at the World most popular and powerful search engine user interface.
An easy design by introducing the brand, input box, plain white background, and next step button. Google UI has designed by focusing on preparing a user-friendly interface for users, this easy and simple design concentrates on anticipating that what users might need, easy to understand.
Activity ‘Web search’:
Find three web search engines and compare their user interfaces, how easy is to use and understand for users with different. Write your own idea about their design.
When you are designing an interface to interact with the user, before you have to know your users, the level of their computer knowledge, communication by informing user e.g. error messages, and navigator element.
Read following articles about the user interface design. 10 User Interface Design Fundamentals http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/10-user-interface-design-fundamentals
Mobile interface design
In recent years, smartphones developed to deliver online product and facilities for users. Analyse believes smart mobile phones have overtaken the desktop computers as users’ primary purpose for accessing the Internet, Smart mobile phones going to be more demand for day-by-day requirements. Most applications and websites have developed their websites, applications, and services to the mobile-friendly interfaces (“The 10 principal of mobile interface design.” n.d., para 2)
Some facts to design mobile interface
Concentrate on the context, for example, if you design a desktop version of the news website interface for users you with many details, you need to think that not all these details are a necessary for your mobile version. Therefore, in the mobile version, you may just locate your news title, and extended based on user request. You as a designer have to put yourself in mobile users’ shoes to understand their needs and desire not just on your personal business goal. Context focus, means a mobile interface design should enable users to accomplish the task quickly and easily with one hand on the small screen, so you may consider to bold or triple size these action keys like ‘Submit’, ‘Order’, ‘Next’, ‘Call’, ‘Email’ and ‘Calendared’.
Activity:
Read the article:
10 mobile user interface design principals
http://www.creativebloq.com/mobile/10-principles-mobile-interface-design-4122910
and based on this article explain how should a news application or website be designed for better usability and accessibility for mobile users.