Device / product / system UI transformation

Lista: User_interface_transformations.list

Laatija(t): Matti Vuori

Copyright: (c) 1999-2011, Matti Vuori

Think about what UI would be like when transformed this way:


User, the target group

1. For professionals

2. For first-time users

3. Adaptable for all

4. Remembers the user

5. Identifies user type

6. For use for all

7. To younger user

8. To older user

Use

9. Expand the purpose

10. Concentrate on the essentials use

11. What else could it do?

12. Versatile

13. Specific

Benefits

14. More efficient, faster

15. Less efficient, slower

16. Tolerates errors

Relationship between user and user interface

17. Recognizes user

18. Remembers user

19. Identifies user type

20. Follows the user

21. Is the user's equipment

Use / operating / control mode

22. Agent (does thing on its own for the user; decides by itself what to do)

23. Active

24. Expert system

25. Dynamic

26. Remotely controlled

27. Interactive

28. More independent

29. Chart

30. Who controls whom?

31. User programmable

32. User customizable

33. Drop it altogether

34. Guiding (wizard)

35. Learning

36. Teaching

37. Directly controls the target

38. To work backwards

39. Stupid

40. More often used

41. Utilises new senses

42. Utilises new control methods

43. Utilises new display types

44. Utilises new input devices (keyboard, card reader, camera, virtual devices)

Genre, design language

45. Everyday

46. Cool

47. Different style

48. "Green"

49. Crazy

50. Happy

51. Bold, robust

52. Sensible

53. Rebel

54. Classic

55. Cold

56. Slippery

57. Confidence-inspiring

58. Warm

59. Transparent, invisible

60. Manly

61. Militant

62. Formal, more official

63. Feminine

64. Youthful

65. Unique

66. Ugly

67. Routine

68. Sexy

69. Sweet

70. Widespread

71. Luxurious

72. Worth of pride, object of pride

73. Friendly

74. Intelligent

Analogies

75. Key ring

76. Cell phone

77. Like a fly

78. Ship

79. Bird-like

80. Flashlight

81. ATM-like

82. TV-like

83. Computer

84. Like a computer game

User Satisfaction

85. Gives experiences

86. Reliable

87. Feels safe

88. Safe

89. More familiar, especially made for me

Actuators, technical solutions

90. Unlocked

91. Futuristic

92. Physical

93. Decentralized

94. Windowed

95. Works "without hands"

96. Divide it

97. Attach it to the leg

98. Continuously changing

99. Rearrange it

100. Centralized

101. Three-dimensional

102. Assembly kit

103. Mobile phone

104. Attach to hand

105. Attach it to user

106. Expandable

107. Attach it to something

108. Microscopic

109. Modular

110. To be multiplicated

111. Unchangeable

112. Evolutive

113. Scarce

114. Smaller

115. A surface

116. Point

117. Roll

118. Place it in whole or in part elsewhere

119. Put it in the eye

120. Standard

121. Closed

122. Collapseable

123. Larger, broader

124. Do it electrically

125. Put it in the browser

126. Virtual

127. Visual

128. One push button

129. Attach something to it

130. Connect its parts

131. Simple

Usability

132. Easier

133. Foolproof

134. It rememberers

135. It adapts

136. Personalized

Other

137. Connecting People

138. Break it

139. Sticky

140. Double it

141. Multiply it 100-fold

142. Can it be replaced by something


Lista päivitetty 19.9.2011

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