"Improving Graphical User Interface using TRIZ" is a book on applying TRIZ techniques like Ideality, Functionality, Trends, Resources, Inventive Principles etc. to break the conventional limitations of a GUI and extend its capabilities to meet the demands of future generation.

The approach starts with applying the concept of Ideality to explore the ideal features of a GUI, such as, "easy to develop", "easy to operate", "easy to navigate", "better aesthetics", "increased speed of operation", "lesser errors" and so on. Then Various contradictions are elaborated, such as, "displaying more visual elements but without expanding size of the screen", "implementing scrolling functions but without sacrificing space for the scrollbars", "customizing the GUI but without wasting user's time and effort to customize it" etc. The contradictions are then solved by using various TRIZ techniques.

The book consists of 20 chapters. The first two chapters of the book are more introductory. The first chapter analyzes the functional objectives of a GUI, their scopes and limitations. The second chapter discusses the ideal features of a GUI. Chapter 3 to 14 discusses how to improve various features of a GUI. Chapter 15 to 17 deals with improving various components of GUI. Chapter 18 deals with improving GUI operation. Chapter 19 and 20 deals with integrating intelligence, feelings, voice, gesture and other special features. The book cites more than 100 exemplary inventions from US Patent database and illustrates how the contradictions in the prior art methods have been overcome by applying very simple but innovative concepts. This book is intended to be a good reference for the TRIZ researchers, GUI developers and IT inventors.

The book presents a large number of practical problems relating to Graphical User Interfaces and analyzes their solutions from a TRIZ prospective. The approach is more practical unlike other TRIZ literatures which elaborate more on the theoritical aspects. The book is about 350 pages. The First edition of the book is self-published in Dec 2009. The book is available at Pothi.com at a price of Rs 982/=. For special discounts on large purchases (over 20 copies) please contact umakant(at)trizsite.com.