Creating user interfaces by demonstration
Creating user interfaces by demonstration
Display-based competence: towards user models for menu-driven interfaces
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Principles and guidelines in software user interface design
Principles and guidelines in software user interface design
Survey on user interface programming
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Software engineering (4th ed.)
Software engineering (4th ed.)
Design principles for interactive software
Design principles for interactive software
Mediacups: experience with design and use of computer-augmented everyday artefacts
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - pervasive computing
Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction
Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction
Developing Software for the User Interface
Developing Software for the User Interface
Architectural Design for User Interfaces
ESEC '91 Proceedings of the 3rd European Software Engineering Conference
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User interface research has shown that the user's primary focus is the center of the screen. The periphery is available and often used to contain elements that are helpful but non-essential to the specific existing goals. Strong present examples of this can be found in Microsoft's Multiple Document Interface Office products (such as MS Word and MS Excel). Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes are good examples of products that are more in tune with multiple application interfaces rather than just multiple instances of similar documents. This paper is following many of the elements set forth in those examples, as significant marketing research has been incorporated into those products. User personas of window's applications range from sales demo's to trade show viewers to beginning users to expert users. The PC host of these can be touch screen or mouse driven, and the display itself, while typically standard VGA variation, may also go to a wide screen format for some applications. The frame / application combination allows variations to create an optimum experience for each of these scenarios. In addition, this paper introduces the enhanced status line by applying a basic user interface design principle of "combine display and update capabilities" to the status line of a host frame.