10 Inventions on Command Buttons in a Graphical User Interface
This work addresses incremental improvements in GUI design for software developers and designers, offering specific enhancements to command button features.
The article presents 10 selected inventions from the US patent database focused on improving command buttons in graphical user interfaces, analyzing each with TRIZ-based methods to enhance their attractiveness and effectiveness.
A command button may contain a textual label or a graphic image or both. It may be static or animated. There can be many different features to make a command button attractive and effective. As command button is a typical GUI element, most improvement on GUI in general will also be applicable to command buttons. Besides, there are also inventions to improve various aspects of command buttons in specific. This article illustrates 10 selected inventions from US patent database. Each invention is followed by a TRIZ based analysis in brief.