Improving User Interface in Contemporary Systems

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?

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

What is the benefit of a shared language among designers?

Promoting consistency among multiple designers (B) Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

To make navigation easier for users (B) Signup and view all the answers

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

Check boxes (C) Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

Organized them into three priority levels (D) Signup and view all the answers

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

Organization and content (A) Signup and view all the answers

Why do guidelines on navigation for users with disabilities exist?

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

What is important to understand in addition to user profiles?

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

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

To proceed with the design (A) Signup and view all the answers

How can high-level task actions be broken down?

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

Why should atomic actions not be too small?

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

How should frequent tasks be designed?

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

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

Relative frequency of use (B) Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frequent actions (C) Signup and view all the answers

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

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

What is an advantage of direct manipulation interaction style?

It simplifies the users' tasks (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary characteristic of menu selection interaction style?

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

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

Novice and intermittent users (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary characteristic of form filling interaction style?

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