• DocumentCode
    3135698
  • Title

    Design of user interfaces for the Web

  • Author

    Dix, Alan

  • Author_Institution
    aQtive Ltd., Birmingham, UK
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    2
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    Examines several facets of user interface design for the World Wide Web. First, this paper considers the use of the Web as a platform for prototyping or deploying user interfaces. Second, it looks at guidelines and issues for the design of Web sites and the nature of the Web medium. Third, it examines the ways in which interfaces can help users to manage the complexity of the Web, including history mechanisms and diagrammatic overviews. Leading directly from the last of these is a discussion of the multiple geometries of the Web given by links, content and people´s browsing. Finally, the paper looks at the future of the Internet as an integrative phenomenon. This includes a description of aQtive onCue, an application that integrates Internet services, desktop applications and the user´s current work. The long-term future is PopuNET, a network for everyone, everywhere and everywhen, requiring a yet more radical approach
  • Keywords
    Internet; information resources; online front-ends; software prototyping; technological forecasting; user interfaces; Internet services; PopuNET; Web content; Web geometry; Web sites; World Wide Web; aQtive onCue; browsers; browsing; complexity management; design guidelines; desktop applications; diagrammatic overviews; future; hyperlinks; hypertext history mechanisms; integrative phenomenon; prototyping; ubiquitous network; user interface design; user´s work; visualisation; Books; Computer interfaces; Guidelines; History; Internet; Large-scale systems; Prototypes; System testing; User interfaces; Web page design;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems, 1999. Proceedings
  • Conference_Location
    Los Alamitos, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0262-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/UIDIS.1999.791457
  • Filename
    791457