Talk:User interface engineering

Editing note: should this article be merged with Usability engineering ? -- MichaelMcGuffin

Yes, but we should do something about the names one of these days. Practicioners out there usually place these things in relation to or in context with Information Architecture, Interaction Design (IxD) and User Experience (UE). Take a look at the "honeycomb" Peter Morville proposes for making some sense of Use Experience facets. http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php AlainV 02:29, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

As a User Interface designer myself, I disagree as never use the term User Interface engineering to describe the work I do (nor do any other UI designers I know). Personally I think UI design is the more commonly used and understood term (quick google search on either pretty much confirms this). As a result I would argue that UI engineering should be merged with UI design. Headlouse 02:02, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be doing a bit of research in the next week to see if there really is much of a difference betweeen UI design and UI engineering and if they each desearve their own sections. If they do, great then I'll just remove the merge suggestion and update IU design with what I know as a UI designer. If they don't then I will probably merge UI engineering into UI design because from my perspective UI design is the more commonly used term. Let me know here if anyone has any disagreements with this. Headlouse 02:09, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh. After writing a bunch of content for the user interface design page, I just noticed that there is also a interaction design article which is a term also used by some people to describe the same thing. There is a lot of term disagreement here. Thus if there is going to be any merging going on all three of these catagories need to be considered an wieghed for their relative merits and content. Headlouse 08:14, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]