Exam 17: User Interface Design

One key to user interface design it to use professional testers who know to look for common problems rather than actual users to test the system.

____________________________ strategies require the user to select an action from a menu or set of alternatives. This is the oldest and most commonly employed dialogue strategy.

Which of the following can be used for prototyping user interface design?

A(n) _________________________ syntax is built around commands defined for custom information system applications. Users are provided a screen console in which they can enter commands that will invoke actions and responses from the computer. Ideally, the command should be meaningful to the user, including any abbreviations allowed.

Toolbars consist of ________________ that represent menu shortcuts for actions and commands that are normally embedded in the drop-down or cascading menus.

The screen should be formatted so that the various types of information, instructions, and messages appear in the ________ general display area.

A(n) ________________________________ diagram is used to depict the sequence and variations of screens that can occur when the system user sits at the terminal.

Which of the following instruction-driven interfaces allows the user to enter questions?

A ____________________ menu is context sensitive and dependent on a pointing device. It is usually activated by the user's clicking the right mouse button.

In _______________ and _______________ information systems, the user interface is implemented to execute with a web browser.

One key to user interface design is to test the system on actual users.

Which kind of menu is very popular in web-based applications?

___________________________ are reusable software objects that can operate across different software applications and even across networks.

Which kind of menu is context sensitive?

Which of the following verbs should be avoided in terminal dialogue?

One special type of pull-down menu is called a tear-off menu.

A window may be divided into zones called _____________________. Each can act independently of the others in the same window, using features such as paging, scrolling, display attributes and color. Each is usually defined to serve a different purpose.

In web-based applications, the toolbar is provided by the browser and cannot be customized.

A novice user is an inexperienced or casual computer user.

Paging displays information one line at a time.