Development Aspects of Ergonomic Interface for User of Application Programs

Abstract

At the present stage of development of computer systems, users of software products are representatives of virtually all ages and all professions, unlike the middle of the last century, when communications with computers were exclusively handled by specialists who possessed all the necessary knowledge for this complicated process. Such a global change in the target audience is due not least to the development of user interaction technologies; the appearance of the graphic interface in its time revolutionized the availability of the computing system to a wide range of consumers. To date, there is an approach to the development of software, where the central object at all stages of work is not the functionality and technical characteristics of the system, but the user.

The paper provides an overview of the basic concepts associated with the development of an ergonomic user interface for application programs; considers the main indicators of the suitability of the use of the software product: effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. Possible ways of estimating these indicators, including the method of the semantic differential, which was not previously used for these purposes, are listed. The main types of design activities are presented in the human-oriented development approach in accordance with the existing standard documentation.