Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
A typical user interface consists of several buttons, menus,
windows, trees and other type of controls. The increased number of GUI elements
and complexities of the GUI controls necessitate the user to acquire certain
level of skill and efficiency in order to operate the GUI. There are many
situations which further make the navigation difficult.
Ideally the user should face no difficulties in navigating
through the user interface. Any operation in the graphical user interface
should require minimum pointer operations from the user (Ideal Final Result).
This objective of a graphical user interface has led to
several inventions trying to make the navigation simple and efficient. The
article analyzes some inventions from US Patent database and illustrates how
each of them has tried to solve different problems of navigation in a graphical
user interface.
Keywords: TRIZ, Innovation, Invention, Inventive
Problem Solving, Software Patents, Software inventions, Graphical User
Interface, GUI design, User-friendliness, navigation, resizing, pointer
movement, cursor movement, Windows resizing, GUI elements, dynamic Interface,
GUI efficiency
- Mishra, Umakant, Using TRIZ for Improving Navigation in Graphical User Interface (October 12, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1283143 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1283143
- http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1283143
- http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/72
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255999735_Using_TRIZ_for_Improving_Navigation_in_Graphical_User_Interface
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