User Interface Design

This website is a comprehensive guide to user interface design. Roger's UID Online Portfolio describes the techniques and tools that can be applied to the World Wide Web and other multimedia products to create effective user interaction with computer interfaces.

What is User Interface Design and why is it important?
User Interface Design is the process of including usability techniques to the development lifecycle of a product. User Interface Design can be disseminated into three sections; these are Information Design, Visual Design and Testing.

User interface design is important as it ensures that a design provides the user with a consistently high-level product that conforms to the many underlying models and concepts of User Interface Design that allow a user to use the full potential of the design and nothing less.

Theories and models help designers to see potential problems, organize their design process, and evaluate alternative design solutions. Grice's 4 Maxims, Norman's Theory, the PARC Principles and GOMS Techniques are studied in different sections of this website, to provide you with examples of the types of models that are available to designers for successful user interface design.

For a detailed design rationale of this website, click the 'Design Rationale' link on the navigation bar (left hand side, down the bottom) or [click here]

All material on this website has been derived from Marilyn Fords website of User Interface Design:
Ford, M. (2004) User Interface Design, www.cit.gu.edu.au/~mf/2506CIT/