User Interfaces

User Interfaces

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is a digital interface in which a user interacts with graphical components such as icons, buttons, and menus. Visual elements represent actions users can take, objects that users can manipulate, and other information relevant to the user.

Experienced professionals such as myself typically interact via a CUI: (alternately Character/Conversational) User Interface. These operating systems implement a command-line interface in a shell for interactive access to operating system functions or services. This model removes the graphical component - to - instruction step, because I am able to input those commands directly.

Perhaps it would be easier to explain this by showing a user give instruction to a computer without any intermediary translation steps. Due to his modifications, Echo is able to bypass several intermediary layers and connect directly to hardware. (below the cut)

Seen here, he directly communicates with a scomp port aboard a Venator-class cruiser, activating the environment controls within seconds. If this had been my task, I would utilize a data spike to which I would send commands through individually written lines of code on my datapad.