Thursday, June 2, 2016

Retrofitting Zooming UI To Legacy Websites: An Impossible Task?


  

It's well known that, in the '80s, Microsoft and Apple made the graphical user interface (GUI), the dominant interface on desktop computers. What's less known is that the GUI, whose navigation is based on pages and links, is not the only possible interface. And we know that finding our way in a modern GUI, whether for a website or application, is not always easy.



Retrofitting ZUIs To Legacy Websites: An Impossible Task?


One problem is of design, meaning that an interface could simply be poorly designed. But a different problem may very well be the way our brains are wired; even well-designed interfaces can be difficult to navigate and use.






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