• Learn about the course background
• Identify the course objectives
• Discuss the course agenda

2. GUI Introduction

• Define the term GUI
• Understand the benefits of good GUI design
• Discuss GUI challenges and how to overcome them
• List common reasons for GUI failure
• List common reasons for GUI success

3. GUI Design Process - User Profiles

• Explore the concepts of user analysis
• Identify the characteristics of different user types
• Learn how user analysis affects GUI design
• Identify different types of tasks and how they affect the design
• Lab: Develop a task/user profile matrix

4. User-Centric Design

• Discuss how people think, learn, and work
• Identify the principles of user-centric design
• Apply the concepts to interface design
• Identify online help design basics
• Lab: Look at effective icon design
• Lab: Improve a GUI based on user-centric design techniques

5. Window Design

• Define the components of windows
• Learn window navigation techniques
• Learn why SDI is now favored over MDI
• Understand how to use the four main types of windows
• Identify the common window attributes
• Discuss modal vs. modeless windows and their usage
• Discuss various presentation models and when to use each type
• Learn when to use tab and multi-form window display techniques
• Quiz: Match window types

6. Control Design

• Learn about the common GUI controls
• Discuss the appropriate usage and behavior of the common GUI controls
• Learn techniques for effective menu design and usage
• Lab: Design a menu for a banking call center application

7. Applying the Design Principles

• Review some GUI designs for standards and quality
• Apply the principles of effective GUI design
• Labs: Redesign some challenged GUIs

8. Converting Character-Based Systems

• Learn the process involved in converting a CUI to a GUI
• Identify guidelines and rules to follow
• Discuss different strategies for CUI to GUI migration
• Lab: Convert character-based screens to GUI windows

9. On-Line Help

• Learn about the various types of help
• Explain the components of an on-line help system
• Identify basic principles of help system design
• Learn when to use each help technique
• Learn how to provide the appropriate "levels" of help
• Learn how to incorporate an HTML-based help solution

10. Usability Testing

• Define usability testing
• Discuss when usability testing should be conducted
• Explore the usability testing process

11. GUI Architectural Modeling

• Discuss the GUI design process
• Discuss techniques used to implement effective GUIs
• Learn the basics of prototyping and usability testing techniques
• Learn new GUI modeling techniques
• Lab: Create a presentation model for a sample application
• Lab: Create a navigation model for a sample application
• Lab: Create sample GUI windows to support the new models

12. Prototyping the Interface

• Define prototyping
• List the benefits and costs of prototyping
• List the purpose and goals of prototyping
• Define different types of prototyping and when to use each type
• Describe success factors in prototyping efforts

13. Creating Effective Standards

• Learn why GUI standards are important
• Identify the process of defining and implementing standards
• Learn the contents of standards
• Discuss how to implement and maintain the standards

14. Course Conclusion

• Hear a summary of the course
• Ask questions and learn the answers