7 Jun
2022
7 Jun
'22
10:49 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 00:06:08 +0200
Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote:
Simple fact is that all popular GUI toolsets are
targeted to developing 'office'
or 'social' type of applications and completely fail to address the needs for
anything outside that limited scope. There is much more to this than just the
choice of colors.
Indeed. It’s a shame, as office-type applications could benefit from
higher standards of providing information at a glance and efficient
means of control (even at the cost of being less obvious).
I've been involved in creating displays used in
aircraft cockpits and similar
technical environments. Almost all of the 'standard' GUI design guidelines
(as advocated by 'computer science' academics) have been shown to be either
irrelevant or just plain wrong for such applications. That probably includes
graphical interfaces for pro-audio systems.
So far I thought the differences are all about much higher requirements
on readability at a glance and stableness. More contrast, avoiding
superfluous styling, no deep layering. Being able to rely on training
much more.
Fons, do you have examples of such guidelines that don‘t work for
cockpits, that may surprise the layman?
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Thorsten Wilms <t_w_(a)freenet.de>