11.1. Introduction
A graphical user interface (GUI) presents a user-friendly mechanism for interacting with an application. A GUI (pronounced “GOO-ee”) gives an application a distinctive “look” and “feel.” Providing different applications with consistent, intuitive user interface components allows users to be somewhat familiar with an application, so that they can learn it more quickly and use it more productively.
Look-and-Feel Observation 11.1
| Consistent user interfaces enable a user to learn new applications faster. |
As an example of a GUI, Fig. 11.1 contains an Internet Explorer web-browser window with some of its GUI components labeled. At ...
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