USER INTERFACE DESIGN

Ashish OjhaRoll No. 14

PRN: -20130338001234068/18/2014

Example of bad user interface design.

Youth Hostels Association of Indiahttp://yhaindia.org

1. Registration/Membership This interface lets the user to get registered and become the member

of the organization. After becoming the member the user can get various benefits

The process of becoming a member and getting registered is a bit unusual.

The user is asked to enter name, email and mobile no and when user clicks “submit” button a popup menu appears asking the user to get registered.

When user clicks the “Register Now” button it gets navigated to the registration form.

This interface increases the registration steps and process becomes lengthy.

Instead of this a direct Registration link can be used, that navigates to registration form. This will reduce the registration steps.

The use of this design might be to get the contact detail of users who are not getting registered.

2. View Inage gallery This interface I designed to view the images of tour.

We can see image gallery beside every camping program. The image is clickable and user can view the images related to that program.

When user clicks the image it is navigated to the page which describes the camping program details, but not to the gallery.

A separate “Image Gallery” link is given at home page, so this design is not needed.

It is designed this way so the user can view the images while reading details about that program.

3. Advertisement popup A popup appears whenever user clicks “Home” button. It advertises the Blog of the president of that organization, and asks

the user to read it.

This design can be improved by making the popup appear only once, when the user visits that website.