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Complex Interface Canvas

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complex interface canvas

What is the Complex Interface Canvas?

The complex interface canvas is visual tool that helps designers design complex digital interfaces. It allows the designer to understand, design and comunicate the project.

It is a visual poster composed by ten blocks that represent differents challenges from working with complex digital interfaces and methods and strategies to cooperate with those challenges.

complex interface canvas poster

The blocks

complex interface canvas layout

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User interface

User experience

Development

complex interface canvas layout with sub-areas
icon company specs
Your company specs
icon people
People from your company
icon level of complexity
Interface level of complexity
icon interface domain
Interface domain
icon interface goals
Interface goals
icon users
Users
icon workflows
Workflows
icon inner tools
Inner tools
icon internal dependancies
Internal dependancies
icon external dependancies
External dependancies

How to use it?

What is a complex digital interface?

A complex digital interface is any digital interface that suports broad, unstructured goals and/or non-linear workflows, normaly designed for a specilized domain and used by specilize users. On the other hand, a simple interface is defined as, a generalist interface for everyday domains and that normaly has a linear workflow, with structured gloals and for nonspecialized users.

Based on the Norman Nielsen Group definition
simple interface
Simple interface

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complex interface
Complex interface

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