Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

User interface

Index User interface

The user interface (UI), in the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. [1]

156 relations: Adaptive user interface, Aesthetics, Ajax (programming), Apache Flex, Apple Inc., Application software, Attention, Attentive user interface, Augmented reality, Batch processing, Brain–computer interface, Cochlear implant, Command (computing), Command verb, Command-line interface, Compile and go system, Computer graphics, Computer monitor, Computer mouse, Computer science, Computer user satisfaction, Concision, Crossing-based interface, Decision-making, Desktop metaphor, Deutsche Bahn, Digital library, Digital Research, Direct manipulation interface, Direct voice input, Distinguishable interfaces, Douglas Engelbart, Efficiency, Electrical connector, Electronics, Flat design, Forgiveness, Framebuffer, Gesture, Gesture recognition, Google Glass, Graphical user interface, Graphics, Habit, Haptic communication, Heavy equipment, History of the graphical user interface, Human factors and ergonomics, Human interface device, Human–computer interaction, ..., Hypertext, IBM Common User Access, IBM Systems Application Architecture, Icon design, Immersion (virtual reality), Industrial design, Industry, Information architecture, Information overload, Information visualization, Intelligent user interface, Interaction design, Interaction protocol, Interaction technique, Intercity-Express, Interface (computing), Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant), Java (programming language), JavaScript, Keypunch, Line printer, Machine, Macintosh, Magnetic tape data storage, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Microsoft Windows, Mobile device, Motion capture, Natural user interface, Natural-language user interface, Ncurses, NLS (computer system), Numerical control, Object-oriented programming, Object-oriented user interface, Operating system, Organic user interface, OS/2, PARC (company), Persona, PHP, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Plugboard, Point of sale, Pointer (user interface), Pointing device gesture, Post-WIMP, Principle of least astonishment, Programming language, Prosthesis, Psychology, Punched card, Punched tape, Qualia, Resident monitor, Responsiveness, Rogue (video game), Science fiction, Smell-O-Vision, SRI International, Steam locomotive, Steve Jobs, Stylus, Stylus (computing), System console, Systems engineering, Tangible user interface, Task-focused interface, Teleprinter, Text-based user interface, Tool, Touch user interface, Touchpad, Touchscreen, Turnaround time, Unified Code for Units of Measure, Unit operation, Unix, Usability engineering, Use case, User assistance, User experience, User experience design, User interface, User interface design, User-centered design, Useware, Vi, Video production, Virtual artifact, Virtual reality, Visualization (graphics), Voice user interface, Wearable computer, Web application, Web browser, Web hosting control panel, Web page, WIMP (computing), Window (computing), WYSIWYG, X Window System, Xerox Alto, Xerox Star, Zooming user interface, .NET Framework. Expand index (106 more) »

Adaptive user interface

An adaptive user interface (also known as AUI) is a user interface (UI) which adapts, that is changes, its layout and elements to the needs of the user or context and is similarly alterable by each user.

New!!: User interface and Adaptive user interface · See more »

Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

New!!: User interface and Aesthetics · See more »

Ajax (programming)

Ajax (also AJAX; short for "Asynchronous JavaScript And XML") is a set of Web development techniques using many Web technologies on the client side to create asynchronous Web applications.

New!!: User interface and Ajax (programming) · See more »

Apache Flex

Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, is a software development kit (SDK) for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.

New!!: User interface and Apache Flex · See more »

Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

New!!: User interface and Apple Inc. · See more »

Application software

An application software (app or application for short) is a computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user.

New!!: User interface and Application software · See more »

Attention

Attention, also referred to as enthrallment, is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether deemed subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information.

New!!: User interface and Attention · See more »

Attentive user interface

Attentive user interfaces (AUI) are user interfaces that manage the user's attention.

New!!: User interface and Attentive user interface · See more »

Augmented reality

Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whose elements are "augmented" by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory.

New!!: User interface and Augmented reality · See more »

Batch processing

In computing, batch processing refers to a computer working through a queue or batch of separate jobs (programs) without manual intervention (non-interactive).

New!!: User interface and Batch processing · See more »

Brain–computer interface

A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a neural-control interface (NCI), mind-machine interface (MMI), direct neural interface (DNI), or brain–machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication pathway between an enhanced or wired brain and an external device.

New!!: User interface and Brain–computer interface · See more »

Cochlear implant

A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears.

New!!: User interface and Cochlear implant · See more »

Command (computing)

In computing, a command is a directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.

New!!: User interface and Command (computing) · See more »

Command verb

In human–computer interaction, a command verb is a verb that appears in a user interface and is used for the user to tell the computer to do something (rather than vice versa).

New!!: User interface and Command verb · See more »

Command-line interface

A command-line interface or command language interpreter (CLI), also known as command-line user interface, console user interface and character user interface (CUI), is a means of interacting with a computer program where the user (or client) issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines of text (command lines).

New!!: User interface and Command-line interface · See more »

Compile and go system

In computer programming, a compile and go system, compile, load, and go system, assemble and go system, or load and go system is a programming language processor in which the compilation, assembly, or link steps are not separated from program execution.

New!!: User interface and Compile and go system · See more »

Computer graphics

Computer graphics are pictures and films created using computers.

New!!: User interface and Computer graphics · See more »

Computer monitor

A computer monitor is an output device which displays information in pictorial form.

New!!: User interface and Computer monitor · See more »

Computer mouse

A computer mouse is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.

New!!: User interface and Computer mouse · See more »

Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

New!!: User interface and Computer science · See more »

Computer user satisfaction

Computer user satisfaction (and closely related concepts such as system satisfaction, user satisfaction, computer system satisfaction, end user computing satisfaction) is the attitude of a user to the computer system (s)he employs in the context of his/her work environments.

New!!: User interface and Computer user satisfaction · See more »

Concision

Concision (alternatively brevity, laconicism, terseness, or conciseness) is minimizing words, while conveying an idea.

New!!: User interface and Concision · See more »

Crossing-based interface

Crossing-based interfaces are graphical user interfaces that use crossing gestures instead of, or in complement to, pointing.

New!!: User interface and Crossing-based interface · See more »

Decision-making

In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several alternative possibilities.

New!!: User interface and Decision-making · See more »

Desktop metaphor

In computing, the desktop metaphor is an interface metaphor which is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users interact more easily with the computer.

New!!: User interface and Desktop metaphor · See more »

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as DB, DB AG or DBAG) is a German railway company.

New!!: User interface and Deutsche Bahn · See more »

Digital library

A digital library, digital repository, or digital collection, is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, or other digital media formats.

New!!: User interface and Digital library · See more »

Digital Research

Digital Research, Inc. (also known as DR or DRI) was a company created by Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit systems like MP/M, Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, DOS Plus, DR DOS and GEM.

New!!: User interface and Digital Research · See more »

Direct manipulation interface

In computer science, direct manipulation is a human–computer interaction style which involves continuous representation of objects of interest and rapid, reversible, and incremental actions and feedback.

New!!: User interface and Direct manipulation interface · See more »

Direct voice input

Direct voice input (DVI) (sometimes called voice input control (VIC)) is a style of human–machine interaction "HMI" in which the user makes voice commands to issue instructions to the machine.

New!!: User interface and Direct voice input · See more »

Distinguishable interfaces

Distinguishable interfaces use computer graphic principles to automatically generate easily distinguishable appearance for computer data.

New!!: User interface and Distinguishable interfaces · See more »

Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer.

New!!: User interface and Douglas Engelbart · See more »

Efficiency

Efficiency is the (often measurable) ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result.

New!!: User interface and Efficiency · See more »

Electrical connector

An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join electrical terminations and create an electrical circuit.

New!!: User interface and Electrical connector · See more »

Electronics

Electronics is the discipline dealing with the development and application of devices and systems involving the flow of electrons in a vacuum, in gaseous media, and in semiconductors.

New!!: User interface and Electronics · See more »

Flat design

Flat design is a minimalist user interface (UI) design genre, or design language, commonly used in graphical user interfaces (such as web applications and mobile apps), especially in such graphical materials as posters, arts, guide documents, publishing products.

New!!: User interface and Flat design · See more »

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings and attitude regarding an offense, lets go of negative emotions such as vengefulness, forswears recompense from or punishment of the offender, however legally or morally justified it might be, and with an increased ability to wish the offender well.

New!!: User interface and Forgiveness · See more »

Framebuffer

A framebuffer (frame buffer, or sometimes framestore) is a portion of RAM containing a bitmap that drives a video display.

New!!: User interface and Framebuffer · See more »

Gesture

A gesture is a form of non-verbal communication or non-vocal communication in which visible bodily actions communicate particular messages, either in place of, or in conjunction with, speech.

New!!: User interface and Gesture · See more »

Gesture recognition

Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms.

New!!: User interface and Gesture recognition · See more »

Google Glass

Google Glass is a brand of smart glassesan optical head-mounted display designed in the shape of a pair of eyeglasses.

New!!: User interface and Google Glass · See more »

Graphical user interface

The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

New!!: User interface and Graphical user interface · See more »

Graphics

Graphics (from Greek γραφικός graphikos, "belonging to drawing") are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain.

New!!: User interface and Graphics · See more »

Habit

A habit (or wont) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.

New!!: User interface and Habit · See more »

Haptic communication

Haptic communication is a branch of nonverbal communication that refers to the ways in which people and animals communicate and interact via the sense of touch.

New!!: User interface and Haptic communication · See more »

Heavy equipment

Heavy equipment refers to heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing construction tasks, most frequently ones involving earthwork operations.

New!!: User interface and Heavy equipment · See more »

History of the graphical user interface

The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles.

New!!: User interface and History of the graphical user interface · See more »

Human factors and ergonomics

Human factors and ergonomics (commonly referred to as Human Factors), is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the (engineering and) design of products, processes, and systems.

New!!: User interface and Human factors and ergonomics · See more »

Human interface device

A human interface device or HID is a type of computer device usually used by humans that takes input from humans and gives output to humans.

New!!: User interface and Human interface device · See more »

Human–computer interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI) researches the design and use of computer technology, focused on the interfaces between people (users) and computers.

New!!: User interface and Human–computer interaction · See more »

Hypertext

Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, or where text can be revealed progressively at multiple levels of detail (also called StretchText).

New!!: User interface and Hypertext · See more »

IBM Common User Access

Common User Access (CUA) is a standard for user interfaces to operating systems and computer programs.

New!!: User interface and IBM Common User Access · See more »

IBM Systems Application Architecture

Systems Application Architecture (SAA), introduced in 1987, is a set of standards for computer software developed by IBM.

New!!: User interface and IBM Systems Application Architecture · See more »

Icon design

Icon design is the process of designing a graphic symbol that represents some real, fantasy or abstract motive, entity or action.

New!!: User interface and Icon design · See more »

Immersion (virtual reality)

Immersion into virtual reality is a perception of being physically present in a non-physical world.

New!!: User interface and Immersion (virtual reality) · See more »

Industrial design

Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production.

New!!: User interface and Industrial design · See more »

Industry

Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.

New!!: User interface and Industry · See more »

Information architecture

Information architecture (IA) is the structural design of shared information environments; the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability; and an emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.

New!!: User interface and Information architecture · See more »

Information overload

Information overload (also known as infobesity or infoxication) is a term used to describe the difficulty of understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information about that issue.

New!!: User interface and Information overload · See more »

Information visualization

Information visualization or information visualisation is the study of (interactive) visual representations of abstract data to reinforce human cognition.

New!!: User interface and Information visualization · See more »

Intelligent user interface

An intelligent user interface (Intelligent UI, IUI, or sometimes Interface Agent) is a user interface (UI) that involves some aspect of artificial intelligence (AI or computational intelligence).

New!!: User interface and Intelligent user interface · See more »

Interaction design

Interaction design, often abbreviated as IxD, is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services." Beyond the digital aspect, interaction design is also useful when creating physical (non-digital) products, exploring how a user might interact with it.

New!!: User interface and Interaction design · See more »

Interaction protocol

Interaction protocols are possible communication scenarios between individual agents in multi-agent systems.

New!!: User interface and Interaction protocol · See more »

Interaction technique

An interaction technique, user interface technique or input technique is a combination of hardware and software elements that provides a way for computer users to accomplish a single task.

New!!: User interface and Interaction technique · See more »

Intercity-Express

The Intercity-Express (written as InterCityExpress in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and, formerly, in Germany) or ICE is a system of high-speed trains predominantly running in Germany and its surrounding countries.

New!!: User interface and Intercity-Express · See more »

Interface (computing)

In computing, an interface is a shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a computer system exchange information.

New!!: User interface and Interface (computing) · See more »

Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant)

Jakob Nielsen (born 5 October 1957) is a Danish web usability consultant.

New!!: User interface and Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant) · See more »

Java (programming language)

Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

New!!: User interface and Java (programming language) · See more »

JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, interpreted programming language.

New!!: User interface and JavaScript · See more »

Keypunch

A keypunch is a device for precisely punching holes into stiff paper cards at specific locations as determined by keys struck by a human operator.

New!!: User interface and Keypunch · See more »

Line printer

A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line.

New!!: User interface and Line printer · See more »

Machine

A machine uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an intended action.

New!!: User interface and Machine · See more »

Macintosh

The Macintosh (pronounced as; branded as Mac since 1998) is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. since January 1984.

New!!: User interface and Macintosh · See more »

Magnetic tape data storage

Magnetic tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording.

New!!: User interface and Magnetic tape data storage · See more »

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

New!!: User interface and Massachusetts Institute of Technology · See more »

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

New!!: User interface and Microsoft Windows · See more »

Mobile device

A mobile device (or handheld computer) is a computing device small enough to hold and operate in the hand.

New!!: User interface and Mobile device · See more »

Motion capture

Motion capture (Mo-cap for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people.

New!!: User interface and Motion capture · See more »

Natural user interface

In computing, a natural user interface, or NUI, or natural interface is a user interface that is effectively invisible, and remains invisible as the user continuously learns increasingly complex interactions.

New!!: User interface and Natural user interface · See more »

Natural-language user interface

Natural-language user interfaces (LUI or NLUI) are a type of computer human interface where linguistic phenomena such as verbs, phrases and clauses act as UI controls for creating, selecting and modifying data in software applications.

New!!: User interface and Natural-language user interface · See more »

Ncurses

ncurses (new curses) is a programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner.

New!!: User interface and Ncurses · See more »

NLS (computer system)

NLS, or the "oN-Line System", was a revolutionary computer collaboration system from the 1960s.

New!!: User interface and NLS (computer system) · See more »

Numerical control

Computer numerical control (CNC) is the automation of machine tools by means of computers executing pre-programmed sequences of machine control commands.

New!!: User interface and Numerical control · See more »

Object-oriented programming

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of "objects", which may contain data, in the form of fields, often known as attributes; and code, in the form of procedures, often known as methods. A feature of objects is that an object's procedures can access and often modify the data fields of the object with which they are associated (objects have a notion of "this" or "self").

New!!: User interface and Object-oriented programming · See more »

Object-oriented user interface

In computing, an object-oriented user interface (OOUI) is a type of user interface based on an object-oriented programming metaphor.

New!!: User interface and Object-oriented user interface · See more »

Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

New!!: User interface and Operating system · See more »

Organic user interface

In human–computer interaction, an organic user interface (OUI) is defined as a user interface with a non-flat display.

New!!: User interface and Organic user interface · See more »

OS/2

OS/2 is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci.

New!!: User interface and OS/2 · See more »

PARC (company)

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems.

New!!: User interface and PARC (company) · See more »

Persona

A persona (plural personae or personas), in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor.

New!!: User interface and Persona · See more »

PHP

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (or simply PHP) is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language.

New!!: User interface and PHP · See more »

Pirates of Silicon Valley

Pirates of Silicon Valley is an original 1999 American made for television biographical drama film, directed by Martyn Burke and starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates.

New!!: User interface and Pirates of Silicon Valley · See more »

Plugboard

A plugboard, or control panel (the term used depended on the application area), is an array of jacks, or sockets (often called hubs), into which patch cords can be inserted to complete an electrical circuit.

New!!: User interface and Plugboard · See more »

Point of sale

The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place where a retail transaction is completed.

New!!: User interface and Point of sale · See more »

Pointer (user interface)

In computing, a pointer or mouse cursor (as part of a personal computer WIMP style of interaction) is a symbol or graphical image on the computer monitor or other display device that echoes movements of the pointing device, commonly a mouse, touchpad, or stylus pen.

New!!: User interface and Pointer (user interface) · See more »

Pointing device gesture

In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture (or, simply, gesture) is a way of combining pointing device or finger movements and clicks that the software recognizes as a specific computer event and responds in a manner particular to that software.

New!!: User interface and Pointing device gesture · See more »

Post-WIMP

In computing, post-WIMP ("windows, icons, menus, pointer") comprises work on user interfaces, mostly graphical user interfaces, which attempt to go beyond the paradigm of windows, icons, menus and a pointing device, i.e. WIMP interfaces.

New!!: User interface and Post-WIMP · See more »

Principle of least astonishment

The principle of least astonishment (POLA) (alternatively "principle/law/rule of least astonishment/surprise") applies to user interface and software design.

New!!: User interface and Principle of least astonishment · See more »

Programming language

A programming language is a formal language that specifies a set of instructions that can be used to produce various kinds of output.

New!!: User interface and Programming language · See more »

Prosthesis

In medicine, a prosthesis (plural: prostheses; from Ancient Greek prosthesis, "addition, application, attachment") is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trauma, disease, or congenital conditions.

New!!: User interface and Prosthesis · See more »

Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

New!!: User interface and Psychology · See more »

Punched card

A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions.

New!!: User interface and Punched card · See more »

Punched tape

Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage, consisting of a long strip of paper in which holes are punched to store data.

New!!: User interface and Punched tape · See more »

Qualia

In philosophy and certain models of psychology, qualia (or; singular form: quale) are defined to be individual instances of subjective, conscious experience.

New!!: User interface and Qualia · See more »

Resident monitor

In computing, a resident monitor is a type of system software program that was used in many early computers from the 1950s to 1970s.

New!!: User interface and Resident monitor · See more »

Responsiveness

Responsiveness as a concept of computer science refers to the specific ability of a system or functional unit to complete assigned tasks within a given time.

New!!: User interface and Responsiveness · See more »

Rogue (video game)

Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman and later contributions by Ken Arnold.

New!!: User interface and Rogue (video game) · See more »

Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

New!!: User interface and Science fiction · See more »

Smell-O-Vision

Smell-O-Vision was a system that released odor during the projection of a film so that the viewer could "smell" what was happening in the movie.

New!!: User interface and Smell-O-Vision · See more »

SRI International

SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit research institute headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

New!!: User interface and SRI International · See more »

Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

New!!: User interface and Steam locomotive · See more »

Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and business magnate.

New!!: User interface and Steve Jobs · See more »

Stylus

A stylus, plural styli or styluses, is a writing utensil or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example, in pottery.

New!!: User interface and Stylus · See more »

Stylus (computing)

In computing, a stylus (or stylus pen) is a small pen-shaped instrument that is used to input commands to a computer screen, mobile device or graphics tablet.

New!!: User interface and Stylus (computing) · See more »

System console

The system console, computer console, root console, operator's console, or simply console is the text entry and display device for system administration messages, particularly those from the BIOS or boot loader, the kernel, from the init system and from the system logger.

New!!: User interface and System console · See more »

Systems engineering

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles.

New!!: User interface and Systems engineering · See more »

Tangible user interface

A tangible user interface (TUI) is a user interface in which a person interacts with digital information through the physical environment.

New!!: User interface and Tangible user interface · See more »

Task-focused interface

The task-focused interface is a type of user interface which extends the desktop metaphor of the graphical user interface to make tasks, not files and folders, the primary unit of interaction.

New!!: User interface and Task-focused interface · See more »

Teleprinter

A teleprinter (teletypewriter, Teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical typewriter that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.

New!!: User interface and Teleprinter · See more »

Text-based user interface

Text-based user interface (TUI), also called textual user interface or terminal user interface, is a retronym coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces.

New!!: User interface and Text-based user interface · See more »

Tool

A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process.

New!!: User interface and Tool · See more »

Touch user interface

A touch user interface (TUI) is a computer-pointing technology based upon the sense of touch (haptics).

New!!: User interface and Touch user interface · See more »

Touchpad

A touchpad or trackpad is a pointing device featuring a tactile sensor, a specialized surface that can translate the motion and position of a user's fingers to a relative position on the operating system that is made output to the screen.

New!!: User interface and Touchpad · See more »

Touchscreen

A touchscreen is an input and output device normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system.

New!!: User interface and Touchscreen · See more »

Turnaround time

In general, turnaround time (TAT) means the amount of time taken to fulfill a request.

New!!: User interface and Turnaround time · See more »

Unified Code for Units of Measure

The Unified Code for Units of Measure (the UCUM) is a system of codes for unambiguously representing measurement units to both humans and machines.

New!!: User interface and Unified Code for Units of Measure · See more »

Unit operation

In chemical engineering and related fields, a unit operation is a basic step in a process.

New!!: User interface and Unit operation · See more »

Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

New!!: User interface and Unix · See more »

Usability engineering

Usability engineering is a field that is concerned generally with human-computer interaction and specifically with devising human-computer interfaces that have high usability or user friendliness.

New!!: User interface and Usability engineering · See more »

Use case

In software and systems engineering, a use case is a list of actions or event steps typically defining the interactions between a role (known in the Unified Modeling Language as an actor) and a system to achieve a goal.

New!!: User interface and Use case · See more »

User assistance

User assistance is a general term for guided assistance to a user of a software product.

New!!: User interface and User assistance · See more »

User experience

User Experience (UX) refers to a person's emotions and attitudes about using a particular product, system or service.

New!!: User interface and User experience · See more »

User experience design

User experience design (UX, UXD, UED or XD) is the process of enhancing user satisfaction with a product by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction with the product.

New!!: User interface and User experience design · See more »

User interface

The user interface (UI), in the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.

New!!: User interface and User interface · See more »

User interface design

User interface design (UI) or user interface engineering is the design of user interfaces for machines and software, such as computers, home appliances, mobile devices, and other electronic devices, with the focus on maximizing usability and the user experience.

New!!: User interface and User interface design · See more »

User-centered design

User-centered design (UCD) or user-driven development (UDD) is a framework of processes (not restricted to interfaces or technologies) in which usability goals, user characteristics, environment, tasks and workflow of a product, service or process are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process.

New!!: User interface and User-centered design · See more »

Useware

Useware is a generic term introduced in 1998 that denotes all hard- and software components of a technical system which serve its interactive use.

New!!: User interface and Useware · See more »

Vi

vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system.

New!!: User interface and Vi · See more »

Video production

Video production is the process of producing video content.

New!!: User interface and Video production · See more »

Virtual artifact

A virtual artifact (VA) is an immaterial object that exists in the human mind or in a digital environment, for example the Internet, intranet, virtual reality, cyberspace, etc.

New!!: User interface and Virtual artifact · See more »

Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment, that incorporates mainly auditory and visual, but also other types of sensory feedback like haptic.

New!!: User interface and Virtual reality · See more »

Visualization (graphics)

Visualization or visualisation (see spelling differences) is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message.

New!!: User interface and Visualization (graphics) · See more »

Voice user interface

A voice-user interface (VUI) makes human interaction with computers possible through a voice/speech platform in order to initiate an automated service or process.

New!!: User interface and Voice user interface · See more »

Wearable computer

Wearable computers, also known as wearables or body-borne computers, are small computing devices (nowadays usually electronic) that are worn under, with, or on top of clothing.

New!!: User interface and Wearable computer · See more »

Web application

In computing, a web application or web app is a client–server computer program which the client (including the user interface and client-side logic) runs in a web browser.

New!!: User interface and Web application · See more »

Web browser

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web.

New!!: User interface and Web browser · See more »

Web hosting control panel

A control panel, in web hosting, is a web-based interface provided by the hosting company that allows administrators to control server(s) and customers to manage their various hosted services in a single place.

New!!: User interface and Web hosting control panel · See more »

Web page

A web page (also written as webpage) is a document that is suitable for the World Wide Web and web browsers.

New!!: User interface and Web page · See more »

WIMP (computing)

In human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for "windows, icons, menus, pointer", denoting a style of interaction using these elements of the user interface.

New!!: User interface and WIMP (computing) · See more »

Window (computing)

In computing, a window is a graphical control element.

New!!: User interface and Window (computing) · See more »

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get".

New!!: User interface and WYSIWYG · See more »

X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computer operating systems.

New!!: User interface and X Window System · See more »

Xerox Alto

The Xerox Alto is the first computer designed from its inception to support an operating system based on a graphical user interface (GUI), later using the desktop metaphor.

New!!: User interface and Xerox Alto · See more »

Xerox Star

The Star workstation, officially named Xerox 8010 Information System, was the first commercial system to incorporate various technologies that have since become standard in personal computers, including a bitmapped display, a window-based graphical user interface, icons, folders, mouse (two-button), Ethernet networking, file servers, print servers, and e-mail.

New!!: User interface and Xerox Star · See more »

Zooming user interface

In computing, a zooming user interface or zoomable user interface (ZUI, pronounced zoo-ee) is a graphical environment where users can change the scale of the viewed area in order to see more detail or less, and browse through different documents.

New!!: User interface and Zooming user interface · See more »

.NET Framework

.NET Framework (pronounced dot net) is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows.

New!!: User interface and .NET Framework · See more »

Redirects here:

Computer human interface, Computer-human-interface, Human Interface, Human Machine Interface, Human interface, Human machine interface, Human-Machine Interface, Human-machine interface, Human-machine interfaces, Human–machine interface, Interactive interface, Man machine interface, Man-Machine Interface, Man-machine interface, Navigation Controls, Navigation controls, Redundancy (user interfaces), UI designer, UI programming, UI specialist, User Interface, User control, User environment, User interfaces, User-interface, Virtual user interface, WUI, Web interface, Web interfaces, Web-interface, Windowed mode, Wui.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »