Assessment Activity 5

Discoverability

JOHN PAUL T. JUMALON

HCI - IT4D Human Computer Interaction
Sat. 1:00-6:00 1st Sem SY 2021 - 2022
Interface that does a good job:

The Typing switch incorporates a label which visually

resembles the labeled slider switch. It is a good interface
which apply the principles of Gulf of Execution/Evaluation.

This Windows 10 typing switch design is much easier to

understand when you can see multiple switches in
different states; the background color makes it obvious
which switches are Off vs. On, and since both of these
labels appear to the right of the switch, it’s clear that they
describe the current selected state rather than just one
end of the switch.
 Interface that does not do a good job:

The Bluetooth setting in windows 10 do not show any

switch to turn it off/on. That is why I consider this as a bad
interface. Whenever I need to connect to my laptop using
Bluetooth, I don’t know where to turn it on. On the left side
of the Bluetooth setting, we can see the “Turn on
Bluetooth even faster” . It has a note there that to turn
on/off without opening the Settings, we will open the
action center and select the Bluetooth icon. However
there is no Bluetooth icon found in my action center.

This Bluetooth setting does not apply the principle of Gulf

Execution/Evaluation. The user must find and search in
the browser for the Bluetooth to be turn on/off.