Most applications are designed to help people get their job done, so the success of an application often depends largely on how people use it. Many application development teams falsely assume that ...

Today�s PC-based test systems free engineers from much of the mundane task of programming at the hardware level or even at the software level. Applications are built by assembling tests with ...

There's a well understood UI design process that you can use to get to the "right" UI for your application. And it starts by inventing people. There's been sufficient interest in the recent columns on ...

User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive experience for users. He finds them everywhere, even in our favorite ...

What makes a user interface truly remarkable? Is it the sleek design, the seamless functionality, or the way it intuitively guides users without them even realizing it? The truth is, it’s all of these ...

In the first installment of this series, we outlined what it means to test graphical user interface (GUI) applications, and to what ends that testing is done. (See part 1.) Now we’ll apply those ...

Consumer embedded devices require a graphical user interface (GUI) tailored to specific device characteristics. To offer a handful of examples: Touchscreens should use large buttons to accommodate the ...