Q4. List the eight main rules for user interface design.

How would you

rank them in order of importance? Explain your answer.
1. User friendly interface.
2. Enhance productivity
3. Provide users with help and feedback
4. Create an attractive layout and design
5. Enhance the interface
6. Focus on data entry screens
7. Use validation rules
8. Reduce input volume
Ranking in order of performance:
1. User friendly interface.
2. Reduce input volume
3. Enhance the interface
4. Use validation rules
5. Enhance productivity
6. Focus on data entry screens
7. Provide users with help and feedback
8. Create an attractive layout and design

A user interface is meant to make things easier for user. Where an attractive
interface helps in doing that, if an interface is not easy and user friendly, the
customer wont use it. So first comes the working of an interface and then the
outlook.

Q5. How has input technology changed in years? Provide examples of

traditional, evolving and emerging input technology?

Input technologies have changed rapidly over the years and are still expanding and
evolving.
Keyboard evolved into body motion detection and now is emerging as brain
computer interface.
Mouse evolved to advanced voice recognition and now is emerging as neural
networks.(Examples are taken from book).
Q6. What are input masks? What are validation rules? Why are they
important?
Input mask is a template or pattern to restrict the data entry to prevent errors.
(Definition from book)
A data validation rule makes sure that the data entered meets the condition
specified for the particular field.
Both input mask and data validation rule tend to avoid errors by rejecting the values
that do not meet the criterion.

Q7. What is the difference between a detail report, a summary report and
an exception report?
DETAIL REPORT

SUMMARY REPORT

A detail report as the

name indicates is a
detailed documentation of
the project.

The executives require the

crux of the project in a
summary to save time.

EXCEPTION REPORT
Exception reports are the
one that meet certain
condition e.g if the
executive wants the
progress in sales in last 3
months that will be
presented in exception
report.