High performance in both processing and navigation Context-sensitive online help Operating system platform for emerging technologies such as multimedia, image, pen and voice interfacing Graphical User Interface Not all graphical user interfaces are easy to use. Some lack consistency, some have neither logical organization nor intuitive structure. Most people are accustomed to organizing information in notebooks with tabs dividing the information into logical groups.
Every notebook has tabs which mark the grouping of similar data.
Some software has so much data squeezed together in one window that the displays become difficult to read and are often filled with data you don t need. Notebook Tabs and Pages Tabs in a data notebook are always visible. List buttons are always gray squares to the right of the field. Three types of lists are used depending on the type of data being displayed in the list. The simplest is the standard drop down list containing system defined values.