User Experience/Grand Concept/GUI

Radical new GUI Designs

Improving the GUI

STILL A LOT TO DO/WRITE

Intro

Most of the GUI is based on archaic concepts. Many new developments in the field can radically improve user's experience.

Downside of Existing GUI

• many functions are non-intuitive
• many prominent functions/buttons/menus are rarely used or useless (see Useless GUI Elements)
• much space is wasted, especially in dialogs
• many areas are badly organized, making the dialog poorly functional, instead of organizing the dialog into functional areas
  • often used features should be grouped together
• dialogs are monochrome,although the human being has a color vision (see Colour Vision

Dialogs

Current dialogs are based really on old concepts. Therefore:

• much space is wasted (dead space)
  • user clicks only on very small areas of the dialog and everything else just fills the area
• impaired users find it difficult to click on a very small button/item
• visually impaired users have difficulty viewing some of these small elements inside the dialog

Customize Window

The keyboard customization tab in the customize window