VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

IT2024 USER INTERFACE DESIGN

QUESTION BANK
Seventh Semester
Unit I
Part A
1. Define Human Computer Interaction
2. Is UID Important? Why?
3. What are the benefits of Good Design?
4. What do you mean by WIMP interface?
5. List the characteristics of direct manipulation.
6. What is an indirect manipulation?
7. Difference between direct and indirect Manipulation.
8. List any 4 advantages of Graphical systems.
9. List any 4 disadvantages of Graphical systems.
10. Define pick and click interaction.
11. What is Object orientation? List the types of objects.
12. List any 4 difference between GUI versus web page design.
13. What is an Extranet?
14. Define compatibility. List the types.
15. Define configurability.
16. Define consistency
17. List any four principles of UID.
18. Write a note on consistency
19. What is meant by transparency?
20. What are the five ways to provide simplicity?
Part B
1. Write in brief about the need for human computer interface.
2. Explain in detail about the advantages and disadvantages of GUI.
3. Explain the characteristics of graphical user interface.
4. Explain the significant characteristics of web UID.

5. Elaborate the general principles of User Interface Design

(Or)
Explain the characteristics and principles of UID.

6. Explain the difference between GUI and Web Interface.

7. Explain the Characteristics of Web User Interface.
8. Discuss the direct manipulation graphical system with examples.
9. Give the characteristics of
a. Intranet vs. Internet
b. Printed vs. Webpage.
Unit II
Part A
1. List common obstacles and pitfalls in interface design
2. List the five design commandments to overcome pitfalls in interface design.
3. Define Usability
4. List Down common Usability Problems
5. List the team members of design process
6. Give any four guidelines for designing conceptual models.
7. What is design standard or style guides?
8. What is mean by visually pleasing composition?
9. List the types of menu.
10. What is a keyboard accelerator?
11. What is a toggled menu item?
12. What are the advantages of pull-down menu?
13. What are the disadvantages of pull-down menu?
14. What are the advantages of cascading menu?
15. What are the disadvantages of cascading menu?
Part B
1. State the obstacles and pitfalls faced in UID? How is it improved by the designers?
2. Explain the importance of usability with its measures.
3. What are the obstacles encountered in user interface design process? Discuss the
impact of human characteristics in design
4. Write a detailed note on requirement analysis in direct and indirect method.

5. Write short notes on good screen design.

6. Explain in detail the structures of menus.
7. Explain in detail the functions of menus and formatting of manus.
8. Explain how the menu can be phrased.
9. Explain the kinds of menu.
Unit III
Part A
1. List the characteristics of window.
2. What are the window presentation styles?
3. What are the components of window?
4. Differentiate modal and modeless window.
5. List the characteristics of device based controls
6. Give examples for device based controls
7. What are the various window operations?
8. Define screen based controls. Give example.
9. List advantages of buttons
10. List the disadvantages of buttons
11. What is a tool tips?
12. What is a balloon tips?
13. Define custom control
14. Define presentation control
15. Give the situations to use check box, radio button and check box.
Part B
1. Discuss in detail about components and presentation styles of windows with
suitable illustrations.
2. Discuss briefly about the types of windows.
3. Discuss briefly about window operations.
4. Explain with example about device based controls and give the guidelines for
selecting proper device based control.
5. Explain with example about screen based controls
6. Write short notes on presentation control.
7. Write in brief about selection and combination control.

Unit IV
Part A
1. What is a message? List the types.
2. What are the message box controls?
3. Define response time.
4. Define web response time.
5. What is the need for Internationalization?
6. What do mean by internationalization and localization.
7. List some cultural color associations.
8. What is Accessibility?
9. List the types of disability.
10. What is the accessibility for hearing disabilities?
11. What is a seizure disorder?
12. What is an icon?
13. List and define the kinds of ICON
14. What is a color?
15. Explain what is RGB and HSV
16. What is dithering or texture mapping
17. List and define color viewing deficiency
18. How will you choose color for textual graphic screens?
Part B
1. What is a text? Write note on presenting and writing text.
2. Discuss briefly the guidance and assistance process in interface design.
3. What are the guidelines to be followed for creating text for web pages? Explain.
4. What do you mean by internationalism? Discuss in detail.
5. Explain in detail about types of disabilities and accessibility design for the same.
6. What is an icon? Explain in detail characteristics of icon and usage in interface
design
7. Discuss the role of Multimedia in interface design.
8. Explain the process of choosing color.

Unit V
Part A
1. What is the purpose of usability testing?
2. What is the importance of usability testing?
3. State some advantages of hand sketch and scenarios.
4. State some disadvantages of hand sketch and scenarios.
5. Define interactive paper prototype.
6. State some disadvantages of interactive paper prototype.
7. What is a programmed faade?
8. What is usability testing?
9. What is heuristic evaluation? List its advantages.
10. List disadvantages of is heuristic evaluation.
11. What is hypermedia?
12. Give the characteristics of hypermedia
13. List out some software tools for testing.
14. List out some software tools for user interface design.
15. What is a layout grid?
16. Give the rules to develop layout grids.
Part B
1. What is a Prototype? Write briefly about various prototypes?
2. What is the need for usability test? What are the types of test?
3. Write short notes on information search techniques.
4. Write short notes on visualization and hypermedia.
5. Discuss the role of software tool in user interface design.
6. Discuss the different stages involved in usability testing and guidelines to be
followed for the same.
7. What are the guidelines to be followed for selection of software tools for
generation of user interface? Explain.
8. Explain www with suitable example.