Review for Final Exam
Fall 2014
Jeff Offutt
http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/
SWE 632
User Interface Design and Development
Parameters
• 4:30 – 7:15
• Same room
• Closed book / closed notes / closed neighbor
• Covers readings, slides, and homeworks
• Only covers material since the midterm
– NOT cumulative
• You may take a break (not all together)
• Spread out – Do NOT sit next to your friends
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Concepts
• Design for the user
• Usability
• The 7  2 rule
• Five measurable criteria
• Syntactic & semantic knowledge
• Assessments and assertions
• Mental models
• Etiquette and posture
• Flow in UIs
• Excise and revenue tasks
• Data entry
• Error integrity vs. data immunity
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Concepts (2)
• Preventing and handling errors
• Error messages
• Information in the world & information in the head
• Accessibility and globalization
• Visual elements
• Proper use of color
• Obect-verb vs. verb-object design
• Desktop GUI structure
• Menus
• GUI controls
• Mobile Uis—gestures, controls, navigation, etc
• Sorting and filtering
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Concepts (2)
• Web UIs
• Don’t make me think
• Nielsen’s top 10 mistakes on the web
• Game UIs
• Controls and dialogs
• Usable security
– Usability and security do not have to conflict
– Most security experts do not understand usability
– Usability is not the same as UI design
– Usability is necessary to achieve security
– Making access harder for legitimate users does not improve security
– Usable security is about pain points, not process
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Preparing & Format
• Re-read the text and handouts
• Study the homework assignments
• Get a good night’s sleep
• Different kinds of questions
– Short answer
–T/F
–M/C
– Single answer questions
– Problem solving
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Final Grades
• 5% participation, 20% UI evaluations, 25% semester project, 25%
midterm exam, 25% final
• Unbiased grading – compute and sort:
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>= 98 : A+
> 93 : A
> 90 : A> 86 : B+
> 80 : B
> 75 : B> 65 : C
– Probably only one A+ per class
• I will “slide the line” down to an appropriate “break point”
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