Inventions on presenting textual items in Graphical User Interface
This work tackles interface design problems for software developers and designers, but appears incremental as it builds on existing GUI practices.
The paper addresses the challenge of effectively integrating textual items like window titles and menu items within graphical user interfaces to complement graphical elements, proposing inventions for their presentation.
Although a GUI largely replaces textual descriptions by graphical icons, the textual items are not completely removed. The textual items are inevitably used in window titles, message boxes, help items, menu items and popup items. Textual items are necessary for communicating messages that are beyond the limitation of graphical messages. However, it is necessary to harness the textual items on the graphical interface in such a way that they complement each other to produce the best effect. One has to keep various considerations in mind while applying textual items in Graphical User Interface. This article illustrates a few inventions on presenting textual items in a Graphical user Interface.