Web Seminar: Inflexion Platform UI – A new approach to user interface creation for consumer electronic devices

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Overview

The success of any consumer electronic device depends to a high degree on how appealing and easy it is for consumers to use. Get the user interface (UI) wrong and your product will have little chance of success. And it isn't enough to deliver a UI that is merely functional: it has to look good too. Studies have shown that good cosmetic design can encourage users to explore the full range of features on offer, can engender the perception that a product is easier to use, and can even make users more tolerant of product deficiencies.

So if the benefits of great looking, easy to use UIs are so clear, why are so many products still falling short of customers' expectations? The answer is that the task of changing an embedded UI is not easy. Even something as simple as migrating to a new screen size can cause major development headaches. To do something more ambitious - such as create a slick look and feel that takes full advantage of a ! new graphics processor - is often not an option.

Inflexion Platform UI offers a solution. It automates many of the key interactive behaviors required by a wide range of consumer electronic devices - such as hierarchical browsing, master/detail views, and scrolling - and it does so in a way that enables completely new and visually rich UIs to be defined using simple declarative XML. Once Inflexion Platform UI is integrated on to a device, major interface modifications - adding a new language, migrating to a new screen size, incorporating a new product feature or completely changing the look and feel - can now be completed in a matter of days or even hours.

Who Should Attend

Engineers

Technical Instructions

Technical Requirements

What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?

Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.

Detailed system requirements

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x or later
  • Netscape 7.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 8
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Windows hardware requirements

  • Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
  • 128MB of RAM

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)

  • Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
  • Safari 2.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

  • Safari 1.x, 2.x
  • Firefox 1.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 7.x or later
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

  • PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
  • 128MB of RAM

Linux:

  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.7.x
  • SeaMonkey 1.0.5
  • Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
  • Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Solaris™

  • Mozilla 1.7
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Additional requirements

  • Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps

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