The document discusses the importance of user interfaces and accessibility. It defines user interface as the point where users interact with systems to produce results. It also distinguishes user interface from user experience, describing interface as the controls like reigns and stirrups, while experience is the feeling of using the controls. The document emphasizes that interfaces must be intuitive, accessible to all users regardless of abilities, and avoid potential disasters from confusion. It concludes that interfaces are critical for efficiently accomplishing important tasks and should be designed with care by experts.

1. Obvious UI
Understanding how critical and obvious
the right interface needs to be.
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2. A Story about a
A Critical User Interface
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3. Taken from medium.com

4. What if bad UI resulted in a major disaster?

5. What solution could a good
User Interface
provide in this critical case?
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6. Confusion over what is
User Interface
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7. User interface is not
User Experience.
UI is the saddle, the stirrups, and the reigns.
UX is the feeling you get being able to ride the horse, and
rope your cattle.
(from webdesignerdepot.com)
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8. Image from vmturbo.com

9. User interface isn’t
always design.
The best user interface is no user interface at all…
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10. What’s the definition of
User Interface?
User interface is where users and systems interact
producing an end result.
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11. Do you remember the last time you used a
website or an object with a screen and didn’t
notice the interface?
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14. How many clicks does it take to get to the destination?
Do buttons look like buttons?
Do I know intuitively what to do next by just seeing the UI?
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15. Why is UI important for
the web & other screens?
Because we need to do really important things
regarding our life and do them more efficiently.
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20. What about accessibility
for User Interfaces?
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21. What about color-blind users?
Blind users or elderly users?
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22. What if bad UI resulted in a major disaster?
for colorblind users

23. What if bad UI resulted in a major disaster?
for accessibility challenged users

24. How can you create a
good user interface?
Hire a good designer who designs for the web.
Use a theme that has been critiqued in-depth.
Ask for help. Know your weaknesses.
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25. In conclusion…
User interface is not user experience.
User interface isn’t always design.
The definition of user interface.
Why user interface for the web is important.
How to create good user interface.
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26. What if bad UI resulted in a major disaster?
Cody Landefeld
Founder at Mode Effect
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