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 and their underlying design and HCI principles using Microsoft Word, Photoshop and modern game consoles UI as case studies.

Keywords

Topic: current UI organizational practices

Ribbon UI

UI Changes

Menu Elimination

Steering Rule

Mass Organization Challenge of Photoshop

Shortcuts

Classifications Menus

Toolboxes

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 Perceptual 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