Golden Rules of User Interface Design

Place the user in control, Reduce the user's memory load, Make the interface consistent

In a way that does not force a user into unnecessary or undesired actions

A design realization of the user model

<p>By establishing meaningful defaults and defining intuitive shortcuts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Understanding the end-users, tasks, content, and environment of system interaction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formal education level, learning capabilities, typing skills, age range, gender representation, compensation, work hours, and language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identifying the work tasks, subtasks, problem domain objects, workflow, and task hierarchy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Basic interaction, task elaboration, object elaboration, and workflow analysis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assigning data to consistent screen locations, customization, on-screen identification, partitioning large reports, summary information, scaling graphical output, color usage, and error messages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Understanding the impact of user errors on system functionality and user experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>User interface inputs and outputs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How the system will be implemented</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Specifying data passing between modules, exceptional circumstances handling, and starting states</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Good practices to ensure code quality and reliability</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure all possible paths in the code are tested</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developers don't skip unit testing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To re-run old tests to check for any issues introduced by changes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavior under very heavy load</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Black-box approach uses only functional specification without internal structure knowledge, while White-box approach uses internal structure knowledge for designing test cases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stub Testing is a technique used in testing, especially in a top-down fashion, where a few lines of code substitute for subordinate modules.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unit Testing involves testing each module alone to discover errors in its code, also known as module testing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Integration Testing involves bringing together all modules of a program for testing purposes, typically done in a top-down, incremental fashion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure that data are valid, sensible, and reasonable before processing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Data verification checks that the document meets specifications and fulfills its intended purpose, while data validation ensures the data are valid before processing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Verification determines if the output of one phase of software development conforms to that of its previous phase.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Techniques such as coding specific words, format checks, and spelling/grammar checks can be used.</p> Signup and view all the answers