“Mastering Visible Wisdom: Graphic Design for Usable GUIs of Productivity Tools, Multimedia, and the Web” by Marcus, Armitage, Thompson, Tien and Frank
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Entry Number: 22
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- Mastering Visible Wisdom: Graphic Design for Usable GUIs of Productivity Tools, Multimedia, and the Web
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Description
The tutorial will introduce terminology principles guidelines and heuristics for using information oriented systematic graphic design in graphical user interfaces (GUIs) especially for the design of icons dialogue boxes and control panels, metaphors mental models, and other navigational devices that often are not prescribed by window management systems.
Participants will be exposed to a wide body of existing knowledge and practical advice that are immediately useful as well as potential research topics in user interface design. They will observe and analyze techniques for making displays more intelligible, functional, aesthetic, and marketable.
Extensively illustrated lectures and demo excerpts will cover perceptual, conceptual, and communication issues in typography, symbol systems, color spatial composition, animation and sequencing, including the design of the following:
Metaphors
Mental models and navigation
Look and feel
Proportion and composition grids
Color selection Tables and forms
Charts and diagrams
Icons and cursors
Windows and menus
Dialogue boxes/control panels
Visual semiotics conventions
Style guides
Practical pen and paper design problems with critical review and commentary by the instructor will give participants experience designing components of graphical user interfaces such icons dialogue boxes, and metaphors.
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Contributed By:
- Mary Whitton
Location:
- Charles Babbage Institute Archives, University of Minnesota
