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Arranging display of GUI elements- A TRIZ based analysis

One of the biggest drawbacks of the graphical user interface is that it consumes the active display area associated with the device. Whether the display screen is a part of a television, computer, or any other consumer device, the graphical user interface appears on the active area of the display screen. As a result the GUI masks a part of the display screen and the amount of information that can be viewed on the screen is reduced.

Ideally the GUI should offer all its features without blocking any part of the display screen. The features should be readily available and the user should not face any difficulty in searching them. Operating the GUI should require minimum amount of pointer movements.

This article analyses nine inventions from the US patent database from a TRIZ perspective. The analysis tries to draw the Ideal Final Result and illustrates how each of these inventions solves the contradictions in order to achieve specific aspects of the Ideal Final Result.

Inventions on three dimensional GUI- A TRIZ based analysis

The graphical user interface has become popular because of its simplicity and user friendliness. The user can do very complex operations through GUI by simple pointer movements. One of its major drawbacks is that it consumes active display area. Every icon, every window and every other GUI element occupies some amount of screen space. It is desirable to display more GUI features within the limited amount of display screen.

Adding another dimension to a graphical user interface can yield tremendous benefits such as improving aesthetics, data presentation, screen-space utilization and user friendliness. The user can easily locate the objects in a three-dimensional environment by using his spatial memory. Many people think that a three-dimensional GUI is the future of the current trend in the evolution of graphical user interface.

About TRIZsite Journal!

The TRIZsite Journal publishes articles, case studies, personal experience, class notes, training materials and other useful papers on TRIZ and related topics.

This section is found to be very much appreciated by the readers. We are getting suggestions to increase the number of articles. We are expecting more articles to come from various authors soon. Our objective is to include more and more articles in this section.

Call for papers and articles!

Articles are invited from writers on various fields to write on various topics and issues. As the site is dedicated to TRIZ, we would prefer your article should be relevant to TRIZ or TRIZ related concepts, such as, traditional TRIZ, modified TRIZ, appliction of TRIZ, evolving Techniques, your experience and case studies on TRIZ etc. However, You can also write on similar related topics like, innovation, creativity, intellectual property, other problem solving techniques, comparision of TRIZ with other branches of study, and so on as you can think.

Not only TRIZ professionals and practitioners, but everybody is welcome including Students, Housewives, Artists, Philosophers to conribute their papers to trizsite.com. We do not differentiate between a senior person in a reputed company and just a novice thinker while accepting papers.

It would be very interesting and valuable for the readers if you could share your practical experience on applying TRIZ, the particular methods you follow, the way you teach it and the way you understand their value.

Guidelines to Authors!

Please send your write-ups via email to umakant(at)trizsite.com in HTML, MS Word or PDF format. Please include a paragraph about yourself alongwith your article.

The editors reserve the right to edit your articles, or send the articles back with specific comments for modification. Selected articles will be published in the site. Please allow some gap of a month or two if there are too many articles in the queue.

Copyright Policy

The TRIZ site holds the right to publish the papers in other books, journals or publications in any form or media. As the articles are published in world wide web the authors by default give right to the readers to read and download the articles for their prsonal use, and not for distribution or commercial use, thus maintaining the copyright of the publications.

However, the authors also have the right to publish the same articles on other magazines, publications but mentioning the earlier publication in TRIZ site.

Editor's Message
We are thankful to all TRIZ lovers whose inspiration and well wishes have made this effort possible. We extend out Thanks to all the authors who have contributed their articles to trizsite.com and thankful to those who have quoted trizsite.com in their websites and publications.

With best wishes to all our readers and writers.

Umakant Mishra
Editor

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