Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
The modern software tools provide numerous graphic elements
in their GUI, which demand more and more screen space. As the size of a display
screen cannot be extended beyond a limit, it is typically seen as a constraint
in a graphical user interface.
Looking from a TRIZ perspective, the computer screen should
display all the information that the user needs (Ideal Final Result). There are
various methods of addressing the problem of screen space, some of which are,
”using icons for windows”, “the desktop metaphor”, “the large virtual workspace
metaphor”, “multiple virtual workspaces”, “overlapping windows” and “increasing
dimensions” etc.
There are many inventions on how to maximize the
presentation of information on a graphical user interface. This article
analyzes nine inventions from US Patent database from a TRIZ perspective
illustrating how they solve the contradictions in order to achieve the desired
result.
Keywords: TRIZ, Innovation, Invention, Inventive
Problem Solving, Software Patents, Software inventions, Graphical User
Interface, GUI design, User-friendliness, Desktop, information presentation,
human computer interface, Windows,
- Mishra, Umakant, Using TRIZ for Maximizing Information Presentation in GUI (October 12, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1283125 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1283125
- http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/68
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255999730_Using_TRIZ_for_Maximizing_Information_Presentation_in_GUI
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