What is a User Interface?

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来自 California Institute of the Arts 的课程

Visual Elements of User Interface Design

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California Institute of the Arts

Visual Elements of User Interface Design

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课程 1（共 4 门，Specialization UI / UX Design）

This design-centric course examines the broad question of what an interface is and what role a designer plays in creating a user interface. Learning how to design and articulate meaning using color, type, and imagery is essential to making interfaces function clearly and seamlessly. Through a series of lectures and visual exercises, you will focus on the many individual elements and components that make up the skillset of an interface designer. By the end of this course, you will be able to describe the key formal elements of clear, consistent, and intuitive UI design, and apply your learned skills to the design of a static screen-based interface. This is the first course in the UI/UX Design Specialization, which brings a design-centric approach to user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design, and offers practical, skill-based instruction centered around a visual communications perspective, rather than on one focused on marketing or programming alone. These courses are ideal for anyone with some experience in graphic or visual design and who would like to build their skill set in UI or UX for app and web design. It would also be ideal for anyone with experience in front- or back-end web development or human-computer interaction and want to sharpen their visual design and analysis skills for UI or UX.

从本节课中

What IS a user interface anyway?

In this first week we will look at some basic broad concepts and contexts for user interfaces, looking at examples both on and off-screen. We will look at basic principles of interaction theory, discuss the relationship between UI and UX, and examine the relationship between coding and designing. We will discuss the roles of functionality and aesthetics in interface design and outline a "form-first" philosophy to user interface design. This week will focus on background information and terminology and will give you the context and vocabulary necessary before you start making great interfaces!

Introduction to Week 10:54

What is a User Interface?3:22

The Relationship Between UI and UX5:17

Roles in UI/UX5:54

与讲师见面

Michael Worthington
Faculty, Program in Graphic Design
School of Art

So here we are in our first class of user interface design, and perhaps the first

thing we should ask ourselves is: what is a user interface anyway?

We get all our information from screens nowadays,

whether it's a desktop or a laptop or a tablet or a phone.

We're constantly looking at screens and learning how to do things and

how to interact with the world through the screen.

And there are certain conventions to the interface of the screen that

we're used to, whether those are buttons or menus.

We understand how we access the information through a screen

through the interface.

And these conventions are things that we become used to.

But within those conventions, there are levels of flexibility

that can shape the experience the user has with the content.

We know we always have to scroll down to get content on a website or

swipe from side to side on a phone, but

what is the actual user interface itself and how does it work?

The key components are the user and the interface.

The user is the viewer or the person interacting with the content and

the interface is the way that the user gets to that content.

How they access that content.

So in a lot of ways, you could think about the interface as being a bridge between

the user and the content.

But that bridge is not totally passive.

That bridge can shape the way the user experiences the content.

And there are lots of models in the real world for how interfaces work.

If you think about a book for instance, that's an interface in itself.

It's an interface between the reader and the story.

The book is just type on paper, but what the reader receives or

experiences is the novel or the story itself.

You could look at something like road signs, where the driver is the user and

what's being conveyed are the rules of the road

through a graphic medium of a road sign.

Nowadays, everyone receives pretty much everything through a screen, and

that screen can act as a mediating device.

And what that means is, the screen can change the experience.

If you think about something like a news event for

instance, that news event could be perceived in different ways

depending on how the story is told, upon how the story is mediated.

So if the basic story is that self-driving cars have been approved, on the one hand

you might think that that's good news, but depending on how it's reported,

how it's mediated, you might think that that's bad news.

Marshall McLuhan famously said that the medium is the message.

But with interface design,

I think it's more of a case of the medium affects the message.

The medium can shape the message.

And that medium is the interface.

So the interface shapes the experience.

So if everything everyone experiences is through the screen,

through the interface, then the interface designer has a lot of power.

Because the interface designer is shaping every experience that everyone has.

And this gets at the heart of what we're going to look at next:

the interface shapes the experience.

And the interface is the UI part, the user interface design.

And the experience is the UX part, the user experience design.

And you put those two together and you've pretty much got control

over how everybody experiences every kind of content.

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