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Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Description
- Most modern PCs use a graphical user interface (GUI)
- Small meaningful pictures called
icons represent instructions that
are available to the user and each
one is selected by the mouse
pointer
- Provide help if users have difficulty
- The purpose of a command button is
often described and explained if the cursor
is hovered over it
- A help menu provided a
searchable database that explains
how to perform various tasks
- Most modern PCs use a graphical user interface (GUI)
- WIMP
- Windows
- Icon
- Menu
- Pointer
- Windows
- Advantages
- Only a low level of ICT skills is required for the
easy-to-use, intuitive interface
- No need to learn any instructions
- Pictures are more meaningful than
words, so small children or people
with reading difficulties can use this
- You can alter the way the GUI is displayed to
personalise it
- Only a low level of ICT skills is required for the
easy-to-use, intuitive interface
- Disadvantages
- It is large and complex
- Can take up a lot of the computer's resources
- May run slowly
- It is large and complex
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