THE NEW DESIGN METHODS OF MULTIMEDIA ELECTRONIC ATLAS INTERFACE BASED ON THE LOGICAL THEORIES
2 - Zhengzhou Institute of Surveying and Mapping,
With the rapid development of multimedia electronic atlas, the problem in design field is more and more visible. And it appears most serious in the interface design, because it is shown to the user firstly while atlas being opened. In order to solve interface design problems, this paper is divided into three parts to fetch logical theories to the multimedia electronic atlas. It brings up some new interface design methods under the logical theories by contrasting with the traditional methods, and also shows some practical applications of the new methods.
1. The multimedia electronic atlas interface design comprises of the design of the atlas style, the arrangement of holistic layout, the choice of the color tone, the design of all buttons and menus, and the harmony of any multimedia mode in the multimedia atlas. At the first of this paper, some traditional design methods of all the factors above are classified one by one.
2. Following this, some problems in the multimedia electronic atlas interface design methods are concluded, such as the lack of consistency, the mixed-up windows structure, the multimedia which work out of line, and etc. For a further step, the essential reason of the problems above are mentioned, such as the lack of research on theories, the blindness in projects development and the systems design at random.