Besides easing and increasing the efficiency of human interaction, user interfaces play a key role when it comes to functionality of computers, software, applications or websites. Functionality is usually measured by how fast and well the responsiveness level of the user interface is. It is also important to take user experience into account when designing and focusing on the functionality of user interfaces.
Below, we are highlighting important components of user interfaces. These components give valuable insights on the objectives of user interfaces. However, user interfaces, in most of the cases today, contain multiple components.
Information architecture: It has the objective to provide an easy process, bring out the most important information with the minimal effort for the user. Information architectures can be built up in hierarchical, sequential or matrix-based form. They also include tooltips, icons, progress bar, notifications, message boxes, modal windows.
Visual design: When it comes to visual design, colour, contrast, font, video and video occupies a crucial role to attract the user as highly as possible. While the goal is creating the attraction, it is also considered as a mission-critical to make the user continue the interaction as much as possible.
Input design: These controls allow users to interact with computers, software, applications, websites to complete their desired action. They include checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdown lists, list boxes, buttons, toggles, text fields, date field.
Navigational components:
As you can understand, they are placed in order to provide an easy and efficient navigation for the user when interacting. Breadcrumb, slider, search field, pagination, slider, tags, icons are common examples.