User Interfaces

User Interfaces

1. Graphic User Interface (GUI)

   • Explanation: It is a type of interface that allows users to interact with electronical devices.
   • Disadvantages: slow, takes a lot of hard disk space and they use more processing power than others.
   • Advantages: you dont have to use complicated commands, they let you exchange data between different software and it's easy to use for begginers
   • Common Uses: menus, icons and windows

2. Command List Interface

   • Common Uses: it doesn't use as much CPU processing time as other interfaces, much faster and needs less memory
   • Advantages: it doesn't use as much CPU processing time as other interfaces, much faster and needs less memory
   • Disadvantages: Confusing for a beginner, if theres a spelling error it will not load and you can't just have a go
   • Explanation: Lets the user type in commands and displays a promt

3. Menu Based Inerface

   • Explanation: It lets the user work through a series of menus
   • Advantages:
   • Disadvantages:
   • Common Uses: