Google Mail follows Schneiderman's principles of interface design by:
1) Maintaining consistent formatting, sizing, and colors to avoid confusion.
2) Enabling frequent users to use keyboard shortcuts for common actions.
3) Providing informative feedback after tasks are completed.
Google Mail follows Schneiderman's principles of interface design by:
1) Maintaining consistent formatting, sizing, and colors to avoid confusion.
2) Enabling frequent users to use keyboard shortcuts for common actions.
3) Providing informative feedback after tasks are completed.
Google Mail follows Schneiderman's principles of interface design by:
1) Maintaining consistent formatting, sizing, and colors to avoid confusion.
2) Enabling frequent users to use keyboard shortcuts for common actions.
3) Providing informative feedback after tasks are completed.
Google Mail follows Schneiderman's principles of interface design by:
1) Maintaining consistent formatting, sizing, and colors to avoid confusion.
2) Enabling frequent users to use keyboard shortcuts for common actions.
3) Providing informative feedback after tasks are completed.
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1 Software and 1 hardware design following Schneiderman's principles
SOFTWARE: Google Mail
Google Mail follows Schneider’s principle. Below will show the evidences.
As seen in the picture given, from the font size, font
style to colors are consistent. There are no mixed-up elements that makes the user confused. Even the sizes of the buttons are consistent also.
Fg1. Strive for consistency1
These actions can be performed and executed in Google Mail. Either you can perform it by right-clicking your mouse or use the keyboard shortcuts.
Fg2. Enable Frequent Users to Use Shortcuts 2
This is an actual message pop-up after you perform a
task inside Gmail. This picture was after I sent an email to someone.
Fg3. Offer Informative Feedback
1 ByRob, By, & Rob. (2020, October 29). Gmail gets a new design and its looking better than ever. TechNorms. Retrieved October 2, 2021, from https://www.technorms.com/7008/gmail-new-design-features.
2 Shneiderman's eight Golden Rules of Interface Design. Capian. (n.d.). Retrieved October 3, 2021, from https://capian.co/shneiderman-eight-golden-rules-interface-design. A good interface is designed that could handle simple errors and will display a clear notification and give hints in how to deal with the problem. In Gmail, it will tell you if your log in information is wrong.
Fg4. Offer simple error handling
We sometimes make mistake when we are deleting files.
We sometimes include accidentally things we don’t want to throw away. Even if the “Cancel” option is given, we still can’t avoid it. What’s good about Gmail, it provides a reversal action.
Fg5. Permit easy reversal of action
Google mail also has settings that will help you control the things you want to see inside the software. It will help you choose to turn on notifications or not, choose how much notification we want to see. Google mail design is kept simple to avoid confusion for the user. It is kept simple. In Gmail, you can’t be distracted by unnecessary information because it is minimalistic and only the important things are being displayed.
HARDWARE: Keyboard
In some ways, keyboard is following Schneiderman Principle. First in its consistency, as you can see visibly in your laptops or desktop computers, the sizes of the keys are the same depending in its group. In your keyboard also you can perform task like copy and pasting using the shortcuts. There are also keys that allows you to control your PC like your brightness or audio volumes.
