Planning the User Interface
From earlier interviews, the IT team knew that users in the payroll and human resources
departments wanted an interface that would be easy to learn and simple to operate. Jane
asked Becky to start designing a main form, or switchboard, that would display automatically
when the ESIP application started. All ESIP screen forms would use buttons, menus,
and icons as shown in Figure 10-47.
Becky created a prototype of the input screens to show to users. After securing user
approval, the screen designs were added to the system specification document for the ESIP
system.