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6 unusual facts about User interface


ESobi

Recent updates (September 2009) added a podcast receiver and features a new UI design.

FAO Country Profiles

It gives added-value to FAO's wealth of information by providing an easy-to-use interface containing interactive maps and charts.

Speech interface guideline

Speech interface guideline is a guideline with the aim for guiding decisions and criteria regarding designing interfaces operated by human voice.

Theldrow

The game featured a turn-based first person perspective interface similar to early Might and Magic games, pixel art (originally black-and-white), and a very original fantasy setting.

User interface

Archy, an experimental keyboard-driven modeless user interface by Jef Raskin, arguably more efficient than mouse-driven user interfaces for document editing and programming.

Edward Tufte believed that information needed to be displayed in a clear and appealing manner.


Background process

On a Windows system, this term may be used to either refer to a computer program that does not create a user interface, or a Windows service.

Language Interface Pack

Based on MUI technology, a LIP also requires the software to have a base installed language and provides users with an approximately 80 percent localized user experience by translating a reduced set of user interface elements.

LYMB

LYMB is an object-oriented development environment aimed at developing applications that require combining graphics-based user interfaces, visualization, and rapid prototyping.

NetObjects

Its target market were designers who need complete control over page layout and a similar user interface as desktop publishing applications.

Point-and-shoot interface

A point-and-shoot interface is an efficient object-oriented, text-based interface, usually presented on a non-GUI platform such as DOS or mainframe computers.

Reverse semantic traceability

Examples: Test cases, User interface requirements, major severity bug fixes, risks with high expose.

Sailfish OS

The Sailfish was presented for the first time by the Jolla team, including a worldwide internet stream, as a demo of the OS, as well as the UI and SDK during the Slush event in Helsinki, Finland, on 21,22 November 2012.

The Humane Interface

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (ISBN 0-201-37937-6) is a book about user interface design written by Jef Raskin and published in 2000.

Typing

Using a personalized interface, physicist Stephen Hawking, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, managed to type 15 wpm with a switch and adapted software created by Walt Woltosz.

Useware

This reinforces the principal demand for structured development of user-centered user interfaces expressed e.g. by Ben Shneiderman (Shneiderman, 1998).


see also

Adrift

ADRIFT, a graphical user interface used to create and play text adventures

Albhy Galuten

As an inventor, Galuten is noted for having created the first commercial drum loop ("Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees), the enhanced CD and patents on content distribution and resolution, on customer care and on User Interface design.

AppleCare

For Mac computers running OS X Server, support covers server administration and network management issues using the graphical user interface of OS X Server.

Architecture of OS X

Rhapsody built on NEXTSTEP, porting the core system to the PowerPC architecture and adding a redesigned user interface based on the Platinum user interface from Mac OS 8.

Aster CT-80

On the software front, work was being done to implement the replacement for the aging "user interface" of CP/M, (the Command Console Processor CCP ) with the more modern ZCPR.

BBS software for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

The user interface was modeled directly on Nick Naimo's Networks II BBS software which had been written for the Apple 2.

Blake Ross

Ross and Hewitt worked on creating Parakey, a new user interface designed to bridge the gap between the desktop and the web.

Blook

The first printed blook was User Interface Design for Programmers, by Joel Spolsky, published by Apress on June 26, 2001, based on his blog Joel on Software.

Desktop

Desktop environment, software that provides a comprehensive computer user interface

DoJa

DoJa is a profile defined by NTT DoCoMo to provide communications and other input-output processing, user interface (GUI) and other application features/functions unique to i-mode, and extension libraries defined by individual phone terminal makers to add original functions.

Elwood Edwards

In 1989, Edwards's wife overheard online service Q-Link CEO Steve Case describe how he wanted to add a voice to its user interface.

Embedded Wizard

It provides a WYSIWYG front-end for editing graphics, effects and logic of the user interface and generates ANSI C code for a particular target hardware.

Falcon Framework

Later dubbed the CUI for the Common User Interface, this component was built on the X Window System and featured an OSF/Motif-like interface.

Hartmut Esslinger

Other major client engagements include Lufthansa's global design and brand strategy, SAP's corporate identity and software user interface, Microsoft Windows branding and user interface design, Siemens, NEC, Olympus, HP, Motorola and General Electric.

Helmi Technologies

Right now the User Interface Framework portion of Helmi Open Source RIA Development Platform is outdated and defunct.

Home theater

Media center, refers either to a dedicated computer appliance (like a Home theater PC) or to a specialized personal computer software, both of which are adapted for playing various kinds of media (music, movies, photos etc.), and it usually has a 10-foot user interface design to be used in living-room TV with a remote control.

Institut für Rundfunktechnik

Institut für Rundfunktechnik is a founding member of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies (also including SES, OpenTV, Espial and ANT Software) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard (called HbbTV) for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.

Jay Brewer

Currently he is the Lead User Interface Artist and Designer for Infinite Crisis (video game) at Turbine, Inc. a division of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

Lockheed Martin Prepar3D

New user interface – Users now have a Windows 7 compatible drag n’ drop interface with customizable settings.

MapInfo Professional

MapInfo was redesigned with an easier-to-use graphical user interface and was made available for the Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Macintosh operating systems.

Mark Malamud

In addition to designing the fundamental conceptual, user, and interaction models for Windows 95 and future versions of Windows NT, Mr. Malamud also pursued future user interface abstractions.

Mobile Information Device Profile

There are several different ways to create MIDP applications: code can be written in a plain text editor, or one can use a more advanced IDE such as NetBeans, IntelliJ (with bundled Java ME plugin), or Eclipse (with plugins such as EclipseME) which has a user interface for graphically laying out any forms you create, as well as providing many other advanced features not available in a simple text editor.

Mozilla Calendar Project

As with other Mozilla projects, Mozilla Calendar was cross-platform, and used the XUL user interface language.

Multitier architecture

Typically, the user interface runs on a desktop PC or workstation and uses a standard graphical user interface, functional process logic that may consist of one or more separate modules running on a workstation or application server, and an RDBMS on a database server or mainframe that contains the computer data storage logic.

Natural user interface

In the 1970s, '80s and '90s Steve Mann developed a number of user-interface strategies using natural interaction with the real world as an alternative to a command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI).

PC SOFT

High Screen, created in 1986 (and renamed Hyper Screen in 1992): user interface editor for MS-DOS, precursor to WinDev, that could be integrated into any programming language (C, Pascal, ...).

Portability

Portlet, user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal

Russell Pinkston

The primary focus of Pinkston's research has been in developing software and hardware for real-time synthesis and digital signal processing, including substantial work involving the Csound audio programming language, including Csound user interface software, numerous tutorials, and example Csound instruments.

Scooby Web Calendar

Scooby is the code name formerly used for the Internet-based calendar user-interface for the Cosmo Web Calendar, currently being developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation.

Simple DNS Plus

All options and settings are available directly from a Windows user interface.

SonicStage

SonicStage V is the latest version of the Japanese SonicStage, and features a new user interface like SonicStage for LISMO.

Steve Matteson

Matteson also designed the user-interface font used in Microsoft’s Zune music player.

T-comma

Although the X.Org Server supports the correct keyboard (ro comma) since at least 2005, selecting this keyboard from the user interface (e.g. GNOME Keyboard Properties) has only recently been made possible.

TARGET 3001!

TARGET 3001! collects several features under one user interface (MDI).

Target–action

A prime example of this approach is the OpenStep API, which partly thanks to being based on the dynamic Objective-C language, has much of its graphical user interface implemented by using the target-action paradigm.

Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs (born October 21, 1978) is the author and maintainer of script.aculo.us, a JavaScript library for web user interface enhancement, as well as several other widely used open source libraries.

TICCIT

MITRE subcontracted with the CAI Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin and also with the Department of Instructional Research, Development, and Evaluation of Brigham Young University to refine the user interface and create the massive amounts of courseware needed to teach a complete college-level English and algebra course.

UISE

User interface design, sometimes known as "User Interface Software Engineering" (UISE), a general application and appliance design principle focussing on the user's experience and interaction

Web design program

The purpose of such a program is to make it easier for the designer to work with page and site elements through a graphical user interface that displays the desired results, typically in a WYSIWYG manner, while removing the need for the designer to have to work with the actual code that produces those results (which includes HTML or XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and others).

Windowing

Windowing system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as a primary metaphor

XRC

XML Resource - a user interface markup language used by wxWidgets

XUI

XML User Interface or Xoetrope User Interface, a Java and XML programming interface for building rich-client applications