Team Undecided

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Members list

• Kiu Kwan Leung
• Wai Kit Liew
• Zachary Andrew Bloom

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Research Resources

1. Photoshop UI (Pallet toolbox, Menu and Shortcuts)
2. MS Word Evolution ( Toolbox to Ribbon )

Thesis Statement

Thesis

Through research and study, Team Undecided will make its attempt to survey modern UI organizational practices through studying their design and explain with HCI principles.

Keywords

Topic: Modern UI organizational practices

Ribbon UI

UI Changes

Menu Elimination

Steering Rule

Photoshop

Shortcuts/Toolbars

Classifications Menus

Pallets

Contextual Menus

Redundancy Gain

Modern Game Console UI

Inputs

Display

Network connectivity

Loading times

Personalization

Bibliography

Design Concepts:

https://www-01.ibm.com/software/ucd/designconcepts.html

https://www-01.ibm.com/software/ucd/designconcepts/designbasics.html

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/familiar-design.html

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000206.html

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html

Microsoft Word evolution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_%28computing%29

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9003994/Final_Review_The_Lowdown_on_Office_2007?taxonomyId=16&pageNumber=2

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2007/10/01/word-2007-not-exactly-a-musthave.aspx

http://www.exceluser.com/explore/surveys/ribbon/ribbon-survey-results.htm

Photoshop UI:

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/learn-photoshop-basics/

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/graphics/photoshop7/

HCI principles - http://ijcem.org/papers12011/12011_21.pdf

Modern Game Console UI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3

http://gizmodo.com/5070189/new-xbox-experience-nxe-review-its-pure-improvement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_system_software