An Approach to Structured Display Design - Coping with Conceptual Complexity

The methods that provide a structured approach to user interface design, often more or less ignores the aspects of display design. The structured display design approaches that exist, seems to have problems coping with conceptually complex interfaces. Building on the relationship between the system data model and the display design, this article proposes a structured approach to display design. The design is divided into three steps: conceptual design, logical window design and physical window design. This structure seems to be a way of coping with the design of conceptually complex user interfaces.