Latest trends in user interfaces and related research works …
Human performance and user experience with computer and information systems will remain a rapidly expanding research and development topic in the corning decades. The interdisciplinary design science of human-computer interaction began by combining the data-gathering methods and intellectual framework of experimental psychology with the powerful and widely used tools developed from computer science. Then, contributions accrued from educational and industrial psychologists, instructional and graphic designers, technical writers, experts in human factors or ergonomics, information architects, and adventuresome anthropologists and sociologists. And now, as computers and user interfaces are becoming the basis for increasingly powerful sociotechnical systems, policy analysts, economists, lawyers, privacy advocates, and ethicists are playing a growing role.
To interact with software and hardware, people use user-interfaces. Different kind of user interfaces were discovered while the evolution of the computer. To complete end-user satisfactions and to give better user experience are the key reasons to find more and more user-interfaces. At the evolution of the user interfaces, social acceptability and practical acceptability have to be considered.
In the first generation of the computer, used user-interfaces are not more attractive than today. According to the day to day needs, more and more different user-interfaces are needed. Currently, in lot of universities, research institutes and software based companies are working on to come up with more innovative and value added user-interfaces.
Below are five latest trends on the user interfaces.
- Mixed reality with HoloLens 2
- 3D graphics
- Button-less interaction
- Full screen background images and video
- No-image web pages
Mixed Reality with HoloLens 2
HoloLens 2, Mixed Reality combines wireless devices with apps and solutions to help people for organizations to learn, communicate and collaborate more effectively. Microsoft’s breakthroughs in hardware design, artificial intelligence (AI), and mixed reality development can help drive today’s industry into the future. HoloLens 2 is the industry-leading solution that adds value in minutes with the reliability, security, and scalability of Microsoft cloud and AI services, providing the most comfortable and comprehensive mixed reality experience on the market.

With the engagement of Mixed Reality with HoloLens 2:
Immersive: With a greatly enlarged field of view, user can see more holograms at once. Read text in the industry’s highest resolution, and view complex details in 3D images more easily and conveniently.
Ergonomic: Make users’ HoloLens 2 longer and more comfortable with a dial-in-fit system designed for long term use. Leave the glasses on. The headset slides straight up. When it’s time to change your work, flip the visor and leave mixed reality.
Instinctual: Touch, hold and move the hologram naturally. Very similar to a real object. Securely log in to HoloLens 2 immediately using Windows Hello. Voice microphones also work in large industrial environments thanks to intelligent microphones and natural language processing.
Untethered: There are no cables or outer packs so user can move freely. HoloLens 2 headset is a standalone computer with Wi-Fi connection. This means that user have everything user needs for him/her work.
Mixed reality with HoloLens 2 are evolved with different industries: education, manufacturing, logistic, health care, construction and etc. Giving remote assistant to the users, without physically walking to factories or sites, engineers can connect with workers who are in the factory with tools.

Researches are inventing more accurate and fast execution approaches with the edge-computing and intelligent cloud to enhance the end-users rich experience. Mixed reality with HoloLense2 is a giant engineering product which brings heuristic evaluation. Due to the design of the tools, without any headache users can get the benefit of the HoloLense. Microsoft are issuing perfect and powerful server based capacity to the system. So zero time of failure and few & non-catastrophic errors users can utilize the system.
The subjective platform is most effective and efficiency since the easy learnability. Users can feel the nature of the real system without any barrier with here. Since the integration of usability engineering concepts, the system brings the digital innovations to end-users. The device enables the efficiency, productivity and quality of the work with real-time user collaboration and coordination.
3D graphics
The trend towards integrating 3D graphics into mobile and web interfaces shows the dynamic growth of last years. Also, as many designers moved from static images to 3D animations, making the design more impressive, the graphics themselves became more dynamic. One of the main advantages of 3D images are that users can go beyond the boundaries of reality and render what user wants. However, it comes in a more sophisticated and satisfying size for the human eye than simple flat graphics. This may be the reason why designers choose 3D graphics or animation as part of their desire for ideas.

The mass market currently has little demand for this technology and seems a little unusual on the site. Despite this, 3D elements that are specific to the platform are included in this year’s list of UI trends. It’s almost over because it costs a lot of production as long as it takes a long time. Nobody likes to wait. The user expects the platform to be loaded immediately. The factor that adds time to the user journey is frustration. But users don’t have to do without 3D elements. With Faux 3D, users can’t be completely sure when it comes to light and shade, but it can look three-dimensional.
Currently 3D graphics are mostly using in gaming industry, mobile applications and very large displays. 3D graphics provide unique human computer interaction. In currently, 3D graphics are using for product demonstrations with new knowledge of user experience. In the usability engineering perspective, variety of experience is giving to human eye, brain and mind.
Knowledge based 3D evaluation is a major point to researchers to bring their innovative findings to out. As well as interdisciplinary approach of 3D graphics is another research concept.
Button-less interaction
Buttons are the most key element in most of applications to navigate. With the traditional button environment, it consumes considerable space on the screen. By using “button-less” concept, it saves valuable space on the screen by displaying more information on top of the screen. Now a days lot of devices are trained to swipe. Swiping is a new concept which are mostly embedded with mobile devices. Meanwhile few buttons are using for most key functions on the devices.
Specially in the HoloLense environment, users can feel the interaction of the button-less concept.

In the button less approach, it is benefited to manufacturing industry, health care, constructions and auto-mobiles. Most of times users have to work with more tools, liquids and other materials. So touching interfaces is not a good approach, that kind of environment. So by identifying gestures and take those as inputs to the system is better methodology user perspective. By reducing the time consuming to touch/click the system, users can use gestures. There are no newly added features to learn for users therefore, learnability is improved.
Full screen background images and video
Presentation of the content is a major preliminary in the user-interfaces: specially for the web pages. In modern days, the latest trend is to use full screen background visualizations like images, video clips or rendered visuals. This approach helps to users to get a more attraction to the system by considering the emotional responses.

When use this effects to the websites, some key points have to consider thoroughly to get the user attraction well. So the used image or visual must be bigger and high quality item. Maintenance of the colour contrast is another one, not to lose the text on the image and to get the user attraction. As well as designers need to keep the eye on: adjustable layout while using large background, contextual approach to full screen background, achieving a coherence and balance, layers and shapes to give priority to content and test it on all devices and fine-tune.
By reducing texts and using images in-front of the images is more eye capturing for the users. Lot of researchers present that, using of full screen images makes a really pretty appearance to the user. It depicts, web sites look superb even on giant monitors. The biggest advantage of photos and videos in full screen mode is that it makes your story great, fast, clear and compelling. Full screen video has the same narrative power, but with additional engagement through movement.
For the usability engineering perspective: enlarged media involved better than normal, full screen videos and images display the story quickly to end-user. So effectiveness and efficiency is highly added with full screen images and videos.
No-image web pages
This concept is an opposition to the previous one. In here, users are designing the web pages omitting crowded images and graphics. Usually, designers are focusing on typography based characteristics to apply for the web pages: different fonts, different font sizes, italics, boldness. In here, traditional documents based fonts are not using and more beauty and attractive fonts are used. The designers are using limited graphical elements to keep the strengthen of the expressing ideas.

Actually, it is difficult to express that no-image web pages are a new trend. The designers are keeping touch on scanable and readable by using typographic hierarchy without considering beautiful of the web page. Therefore, it is a noticeable trend of the user-interfaces. Researches present that upcoming web-sites and apps are mostly based on typography according to the user experience. The designers are making attractiveness by using texts without any consideration of images or videos. To get more user attractive, designers use some tricks: animated fonts, colour contrast and filled & outline letters. In addition, according to the design method, more attention should be paid when integrating into the text content itself and the layout. For example, there is an increasing number of informative and prominent slogans, especially as part of the web interface, on landing pages.
With the engagement of new technologies and trends with user interfaces, users can be a master of the systems. Making lot of diverse applications successful requires contributions from researchers and practitioners in many fields. However, designers are making more more user interfaces by deeply engineering the usability engineering concepts.
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