October 6, 2022

By Yuil Tripathee (650 7050 3480)

• Activity Overview for Week 9:

About User Interface

• Point of contact between device and user (HCI touchpoint)
• Not limited to computer screens (CLI, Voice Assistants, VRs, Gesture navigation and others)
• Components
  • Intangible (texts, rendered information to read)
  • Tangible (buttons, collapsibles, forms, sliders, search buttons)

Significance of UI design

• As mentioned in the 7 Factors of UX (Honeycomb model); defines efficiency of the application
• Plays major role in usability and efficiency of the application
• Qualities of good designs:
  • Contrasts (accessibility standards)
  • Understandable
  • Efficient and convenient
  • Appealing

Lab session: Penpot demo and continued…

https://penpot.app/

Qualities of this design tools (compared to Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Design, …):

• open source (free, forever kind of thing)
• web based (platform independent)
• open web standards (SVG) i.e. easy to share

https://penpot.app/images/video-hero-2.mp4

https://penpot.app/images/video-hero-2.mp4