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What is GUI design?

April 26, 2017design GUI

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What is GUI design?

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Abbreviation GUI stem from English words “Graphical User Interface” and marks the user environment. GUI consists of buttons, icons, windows, menus… The user, indirectly, by using GUI sets a command to the computer and through GUI he/she receives a certain response (result) from the computer. The term GUI design is usually associated with a narrow and untrue picture which reduces it to icon “drawing” and window “colouring”. This job includes a lot more than just pure knowledge of graphic programmes and “aesthetic sense”. First of all, the designer has to understand the mental model of the end user, his/her previous experience, habits and expectations. The aim is to create a design which will be pleasant to use not to designer nor to the ordering party, but exclusively to the end user, and that puts him/her into the position which requires non-conformism, objectivity and analytics. When designing, one also has to have in mind the user’s motor skills and psychophysical limitations. E. g