Interface Architecture

Interface Architecture

1. Analyze limitations of interfaces

2. Predict edge cases

3. Precisely discuss behaviors

   • Designers + eng shared vocab to communicate about interfaces

4. States and Events

   • Architecture
   • State machine
     • Changeable states
     • Inputs/events

5. Model-View- Controller

   • Data/model
   • Listening to viewer input (view)
   • Interact btwn model and view (controller)

6. View Hierarchies

   • Widgets can contain one another, child/parent relationship
   • Root widget
   • Containers layout
   • Event propagation

7. Advances in artchitecture

   • Amulet, WIMP, DART (toolkits)

8. Architecture of an interface determines what is difficult to test and debug