Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
One of the biggest drawbacks of the graphical user interface
is that it consumes the active display area associated with the device. Whether
the display screen is a part of a television, computer, or any other consumer
device, the graphical user interface appears on the active area of the display
screen. As a result the GUI masks a part of the display screen and the amount
of information that can be viewed on the screen is reduced.
Ideally the GUI should offer all its features without
blocking any part of the display screen. The features should be readily
available and the user should not face any difficulty in searching them. Operating
the GUI should require minimum amount of pointer movements.
This article analyses nine inventions from the US patent
database from a TRIZ perspective. The analysis tries to draw the Ideal Final
Result and illustrates how each of these inventions solves the contradictions
in order to achieve specific aspects of the Ideal Final Result.
Keywords: TRIZ, Innovation, Invention, Inventive
Problem Solving, Software Patents, Software inventions, Graphical User
Interface, GUI design, user configurable, GUI elements, dynamic Interface, look
and feel, GUI efficiency
- Mishra, Umakant, Arranging Display of GUI Elements - A TRIZ Based Analysis (October 12, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1283144 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1283144
- http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/73
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262010045_Arranging_Display_of_GUI_Elements_A_TRIZ_based_analysis
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