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Chapter 9: Design Phase Flashcards

1
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It is a concept that makes the system more likely top be adopted

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Usability Concept

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is the process of defining how the
system will interact with external entities

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Interface design

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provides the way for users to tell the system what to do

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Navigation Mechanism

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defines the way the system captures information

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Input Mechanism

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defines the way the system provides information to users or other systems

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Output Mechanism

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most common type of interface in use today.

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Graphical User Interface (GUI)

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There are 6 Guidelines for User Interface Design which are?

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  1. Layout
  2. Content Awareness
  3. Aesthetics
  4. Usage Level
  5. Consistency
  6. Minimizes User Effort
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Layout: The screen is often divided into three boxes which are

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  1. Top: Navigation Area
  2. Middle: Work Area
  3. Bottom: Status Area
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9
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Layout: Information can be presented in multiple areas (T or F)

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True

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Layout: Like areas should be?

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Grouped Together

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Content Awareness:

  1. All interfaces should have ___
    2.____ should show where you are where you came from to get there
  2. It should be clear what ____ is within each area
  3. ___ __ ___ labels should be selected carefully
  4. Use __ __ __ numbers to aid system users
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titles, Menus, information, Fields and field,dates and version

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Aesthetics: When designing text one must be careful of?

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  1. Font and Size
  2. Avoid using all caps
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Aesthetics: Avoid doing what when dealing with novice users?

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Squeezing in too much info

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Aesthetics: Test quality of colors by?

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Trying it on a black/white monitor

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Usage Level: What is the difference of desired interface betwen freqent and infrequent users?

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  • Frequent users desire ease of use
  • Infrequent users desire ease of learning
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Consistency: enables users to predict what will happen

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Consistency

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Consistency: __ are the same throughout the application

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Elements

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Consistency: Consistency reduces what?

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The learning curve

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Consistency: There should be consistency in what levels:

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  1. Navigation controls
  2. Terminology
  3. Report and Form design
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Minimize Effort: What rule is employed, and what does it generally mean?

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  • 3 Click Rule: users should be able to go from the start to the information they want with no more than 3 clicks
21
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Special Issues of Touch Screen Design: It is ideal for what? but not?

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Information display, data entry

22
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Special Issues of Touch Screen Design: Consider using what type of colors?

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Bright colors to help reduce glare

23
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User Interface Design Process: It has 5 steps

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  1. Understand the Users
  2. Organize the Interface
  3. Define Standards
  4. Develop Prototype
  5. Evaluation
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User Interface Design Process: Use what to develop characterization of user groups

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Personas

25
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User Interface Design Process: outline the steps that the users perform to accomplish some part of their work.

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Use Scenarios

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User Interface Design Process: is used to
show how all the screens, forms, and reports
used by the system are related and how the
user moves from one to another.

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User interface diagram

27
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User Interface Design Process: How does ISD differ from DFD?

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No standards or format ang ISD

28
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User Interface Design Process: Show how all the information on the site fits together.

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Site map

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User Interface Design Process: What standards do you clarify during defining standards phase?

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  1. Metaphors
  2. Common Elements
  3. Objects
  4. Actions
  5. Icons
  6. Templates
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User Interface Design Process: What are the evaluation methods?

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  1. Heuristic Evaluation
  2. Walkthrough Evaluation
  3. Interactive Evaluation
  4. Formal Usability Testing
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User Interface Design Process: Interface Evaluation Methods Compare design to checklist

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Heuristic

32
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User Interface Design Process:
Interface Evaluation Methods
Team simulates movement through components

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Walkthrough Evaluation

33
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User Interface Design Process:
Interface Evaluation Methods Users try out the system

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Interactive

34
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User Interface Design Process: Interface Evaluation Methods Expensive, Detailed use of special lab testing

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Formal Usability Testing

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User Interface Design Process: What are the basic principles of navigation design?

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  1. Assume users are dumb
  2. Prevent mistakes
  3. Use consistent grammar
36
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User Interface Design Process: Menu Tips -
1. ___ and ____ design is preferred
2. Logical Categories can be ___ or ____
3. Menus may become less popular with trend toward ____

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  1. Broad and Shallow
  2. Objects or actions
  3. Touchscreens
37
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Message Tips: Should be grammatically correct and free of synonyms and antonyms (T or F)

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False. Dapat jargons and abbreviations

38
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What is the objective of Input Design?

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To simply and easily capture accurate information

39
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Input Design: immediately records the transaction in the appropriate database

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online processing

40
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Input Design: collects inputs over time, holds them temporarily, and then processes all the transactions at one time in a batch

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Batch Processing

41
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Input Design: Batch processing simplifies data communications and updates masterfiles in real time (T or F)

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False. Does not update real time

42
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Input Design: Capturing data at the source has what effects?

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  1. Reduce Duplicate Work
  2. Reduce Processing Time
  3. Decrease Cost
  4. Decrease probability of error
43
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Input Design: Minimize Keystrokes
- Keyboard entry is ___ and ___prone

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slow and error

44
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Output Design: Usually produced only in response to a
query about items matching some criteria.
- This report is usually read cover to cover to aid
understanding of one or more items in depth.

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Detail Report

45
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Output design: Lists summary information
about all items.

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Summary Report

46
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Output design: Outputs that “turn
around” and become inputs.

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Turnaround report

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