Improving User Interface in Contemporary Systems
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What can cluttered displays, complex procedures, and inadequate functionality lead to?

  • Increased user engagement and loyalty
  • Debilitating stress and anxiety (correct)
  • Improved performance and minor errors
  • Job satisfaction and consumer delight

Why are guidelines documents important in design?

  • To create inconsistencies among designers
  • To promote consistency among multiple designers (correct)
  • To undermine the role of graphic designers
  • To ignore best practices and empirical studies

What can be a source of design guidelines?

  • The work of graphic designers (correct)
  • The work of architects
  • The work of engineers
  • The work of writers

What can poor user interface design lead to?

<p>Poor performance, frequent minor slips, and occasional serious errors (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the benefit of a shared language among designers?

<p>Promoting consistency among multiple designers (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of recording best practices in design guidelines?

<p>To provide remedies and preventive medicine for user interface problems (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of providing clear rules in navigating the interface?

<p>To make navigation easier for users (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the guidelines, what should web-page designers use for binary choices?

<p>Check boxes (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main goal of guidelines related to accessibility for users with disabilities?

<p>To make web content accessible through special technologies (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) adapt the guidelines in 1999?

<p>Organized them into three priority levels (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two elements that the guidelines for data display proposed by Smith and Mosier focus on?

<p>Organization and content (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why do guidelines on navigation for users with disabilities exist?

<p>To assist users with disabilities to access web-page content (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is important to understand in addition to user profiles?

<p>Users' skills with interfaces and application domains (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is it important to identify the tasks to be carried out?

<p>To proceed with the design (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How can high-level task actions be broken down?

<p>Into middle-level task actions and then atomic actions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why should atomic actions not be too small?

<p>Because users will become frustrated by the large number of actions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How should frequent tasks be designed?

<p>To be simple and quick to carry out (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the bases for making architectural design decisions?

<p>Relative frequency of use (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the goals of the discipline of human-computer interaction?

<p>To go beyond the specifics of guidelines and build on the breadth of principles to develop tested, reliable, and broadly useful theories (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of descriptive and explanatory theories in human-computer interaction?

<p>To develop consistent terminology for objects and actions, thereby supporting collaboration and training (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do critics view the role of theories in human-computer interaction research and practice?

<p>Theories should be more central to research and practice (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the current state of theories in the field of human-computer interaction?

<p>There are hundreds of theories competing for attention (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is it necessary for practitioners to keep up with rapid developments in human-computer interaction?

<p>To stay updated with the rapid developments in software tools, design guidelines, and theories (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do predictive theories in human-computer interaction enable designers to do?

<p>Compare proposed designs for execution time or error rates (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In a word processor, what type of actions might be performed by special keys?

<p>Frequent actions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the 16 Principles, what interaction styles can a designer choose from?

<p>Direct manipulation, menu selection, form filling, and command language (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an advantage of direct manipulation interaction style?

<p>It simplifies the users' tasks (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary characteristic of menu selection interaction style?

<p>Users read a list of items and select the one appropriate to their task (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of users is form filling interaction style suitable for?

<p>Novice and intermittent users (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary characteristic of form filling interaction style?

<p>Users see a display of related fields and enter data where desired (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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