Chapter 26 Flashcards
Does design principles are high level usability goals
Yes
When design principles applied in certain domain, what they become
Design guidelines
When Design guidelines becomes more specific, what they become
Design rules. Rules gives very precise instruction. e.g. button width should be 30px. button background color should be black, etc.
What principles, guidelines and rules called collectively
Design standards
What are design imperatives
These are design goals and these have high level
What is posture
The manner one present himself
What is software posture
Predominant manner in which program present itself to the user.
What are 4 different categories of desktop postures
- Sovereign posture
- Transient posture
- Daemonic posture
- Auxiliary posture
What are Sovereign posture applications
These are the programs that are best used full-screen
and they offer large set of related functions and features. e.g. word processors, spreadsheet, email applications
What are Transient posture applications
Transient posture applications are applications that are temporary in nature. The text size and images are larger in it and they are moveable e.g. file open dialogue box, volume control application. Transient applications are not resizable.
What are Daemonic posture applications
These applications runs in the background and does not need user interaction. e.g. programs in system tray
What are Auxiliary posture applications
These programs that blends the characteristics of sovereign and transient programs. They work as supporting. e.g. start button of windows, streaming audio in browser add-on
