Design of user interfaces for the web

Alan Dix*

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Abstract

This paper examines several facets of user interface design for the world-wide web. First it considers the use of the web as a platform for prototyping or deploying user interface. Second it looks at guidelines and issues for the design of web sites and the nature of the web medium. Third it examines the way 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, the network for everyone, everywhere and everywhen, requiring a yet more radical approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems, UIDIS 1999
EditorsTony Griffiths, Norman W. Paton
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2-11
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)0769502628, 9780769502625
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1999
Externally publishedYes
Event1999 User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems, UIDIS 1999 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: 5 Sept 19996 Sept 1999

Publication series

NameProceedings - User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems, UIDIS 1999

Conference

Conference1999 User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems, UIDIS 1999
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period5/09/996/09/99

Keywords

  • Browsers
  • Design guidelines
  • Hypertext history
  • User interfaces
  • Visualisation
  • World-wide web

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