Demonstrating contradictions in a Graphical User Interface

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

Designing a GUI is not so easy as it may appear to outside. The developer has to face many difficulties while improving the features of a GUI. In many cases improving one feature of a GUI results in worsening another feature of it, thus leading to a situation known as contradiction in TRIZ. Many such contradictions have been solved by different inventors in the past. We will demonstrate some important contradictions in this article and discuss alternative solutions for each contradiction. 

Keywords: TRIZ, Innovation, Inventive Problem Solving, Ideality, Software Contradiction, Inventive Principles, Inventive Standards, Standard Solutions, Inventive solutions, GUI, Graphical User Interface, GUI improvements, software inventions

http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/2010/06/03/

http://www.realinnovation.com/archives/2010/06/03/

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2272619

Mishra, Umakant, Demonstrating Contradictions in a Graphical User Interface (May 31, 2013), Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2272619  or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2272619

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/96

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256065316_Demonstrating_Contradictions_in_a_Graphical_User_Interface