UI Design Principles Quiz: Best Practices Web Development

Study Notes

UI Design Principles

Direct attention using color, light, contrast, and texture to create hierarchy and clarity.
Use typography to create hierarchy, increase scanability, legibility, and readability through different sizes, fonts, and arrangement of text.

Communication Principles

Always inform users of location, actions, changes in state, or errors to ensure a smooth user experience.

Defaults

Carefully think about and anticipate user goals to create defaults that reduce the burden on the user.

UI Design Best Practices

Use simple interfaces with clear language, avoiding inessential elements for user comfort and gratification.
Maintain consistency by using common UI elements that users are familiar with.
Use smart, purposeful page layouts to draw attention to important aspects of the website.
Use colors and textures appropriately to draw attention to specific components.
Use typeface to increase readability and legibility of content.

Graphic Design

Defines the grid, colors, fonts, and backgrounds of a website.

Prototyping

Defines the layout, content, and type of controls and their behavior.
Improves all major aspects of organizational strategy or operations management by reducing cost, improving quality, decreasing time taken, and decreasing risks.

Interface Elements

Input Controls: buttons, text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdown lists, list boxes, toggles, date field.
Navigational Components: breadcrumb, slider, search field, pagination, tags, icons.
Informational Components: tooltips, icons, progress bar, notifications, message boxes, modal windows.
Containers: accordion.

Best Practices for Designing an Interface

Keep the interface simple and avoid unnecessary elements.
Create consistency and use common UI elements for user comfort and efficiency.
Be purposeful in page layout, considering spatial relationships between items on the page.
Strategically use color and texture to draw attention to important aspects.

Design Principles

Visual Design: improves a site's ornamental value through fonts, colors, and images.
Interactive Design: creates an interface with well-thought-out behaviors based on user interactions.
Information Architecture: helps users find the info they need to complete tasks by labelling, structuring, and organizing web content.

Prototyping Advantages

Reduces development time and costs.
Requires user involvement and receives quantifiable user feedback.
Facilitates system implementation and results in higher user satisfaction.
Exposes developers to potential future system enhancements.

Prototyping Disadvantages

Can lead to insufficient analysis.

Description

Learn about key principles and best practices in UI design, such as using color, typography, and system feedback effectively to enhance user experience. Understand how to create visual hierarchy, improve readability, and provide clear communication to users.