Posted Mar 23, 2010, by Colin Walls
I am very sceptical when I hear the term “graphical interface”. All too often I have been frustrated and irritated by a webpage with flashing, animated GIFs or by a “user friendly” interface on a device that takes for ever performing somersaults and cartwheels instead of letting me get on with the task in hand. Of course, these are examples of badly designed graphical interfaces. I would like to talk … Read More
Tags:
User Interface,
GUI,
Inflexion UI,
Medical
Posted Mar 15, 2010, by Colin Walls
In last week’s blog I talked about what was going on at Embedded World and made some observations about what seemed to be “hot”. I have been thinking about this and wondering which topics, technologies or products embedded software engineers actually think are important, interesting or exciting. Obviously trend surveys and the like give some indication, but I realized that I already had a tool at my … Read More
Tags:
GUI,
USB,
Inflexion UI,
Nucleus USB,
Android,
Google
Posted Jul 6, 2009, by Colin Walls
I have just been taking a short vacation and, while we were away, we met up with some friends. Their son was very excited to be the owner of the very latest model of iPhone. He was very keen to show us all the cool features and how slick it was to operate. I liked his enthusiasm and I was impressed by the device. But somehow I had two simultaneous trains of thought. First, I concluded that the iPhone … Read More
Tags:
Medical,
GUI,
Inflexion UI,
User Interface
Posted May 14, 2009, by Charles Pfeil
In this post and some following ones, I want to bring up the issues and questions that customers brought up to me during the U2U meetings. This includes not only during the BGA Fanout workshop, the Expedition PCB Update presentation, but also in meetings with individual customers.
1. Display Control Scheme Naming - When the user applies a scheme to Display Control and then makes an edit and wants … Read More
Tags:
Expedition PCB,
Control Scheme,
BGA,
Fanout,
GUI