Skills pertaining to the human interface design can be
backtracked from some of the characteristics of good interfaces.
These include layout, content awareness, aesthetics, user
experience, consistency, and minimal user effort (Dennis and
Wixom, 2000). Human interface designers need creativity to
propose interesting and innovative approaches to the interface.
They also need the engineering skills to translate creative ideas
into efficient and effective technical components. Finally, they
need the interpersonal skills to elicit desirable characteristics from
users and potential users as well as gather feedback for purposes
of improvement.