Development of a quality design framework for usable User Interfaces

The most important aspect of modern interactive computer systems is the level of support they provide for the underlying human activity. This level of support is encompassed in the user interface with which the user interacts with the system. User interface usability is an important factor but is often considered only in terms of the ease of use of the user interface. In this paper, a new framework is designed for the user interface which will evaluate the quality of design before the final design is formalized. This paper emphasizes on the fact that usability as an objective is synonymous with the quality of use. Usability as an attribute must be designed into a product and must be considered as the highest level quality objective. A framework is proposed to establish the dependence of various parameters of usability between the user and the product resulting in quality of use in a context which in turn represents the usability of the product from user’s perspective.