Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
A graphical user interface has a lot of advantages over its
predecessors. Its beauty, simplicity, adaptability, user-friendliness, visual
clarity, speed and ease of operation have made it popular and suitable to a
broad range of users.
But a GUI also has certain limitations. Like any other type
of user interface, a GUI can also be operated wrongly which may yield
undesirable results. A good GUI should be intelligent to determine user’s
intention and disallow him doing wrong operations. A less error-prone GUI is
certainly more effective and efficient.
Ideally the GUI should prevent users from doing any mistake
while operating the GUI. A better GUI would intelligently detect and
automatically correct all wrong operations done by the user (Ideal Final
Result).
The article analyzes the features of an ideal GUI, finds out
the contradictions in achieving the ideal features and illustrates alternative
methods of solving the contradictions. Seven patents are analyzed from US
patent database illustrating how each of them tries to reduce operational
errors in a GUI.
Keywords: TRIZ, Innovation, Invention, Inventive
Problem Solving, Software Patents, Software inventions, Graphical User
Interface, GUI design, User-friendliness, error control, error reduction,
dynamic Interface, GUI efficiency
- Umakant Mishra, Using TRIZ to Design Error-Free GUI (October 12, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1283142 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1283142
- http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1283142
- http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/70
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255999734_Using_TRIZ_to_Design_Error-Free_GUI
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