Using TRIZ for Improving Navigation in Graphical User Interface

A typical user interface consists of several buttons, menus, windows, trees and other type of controls. The increased number of GUI elements and complexities of the GUI controls necessitate the user to acquire certain level of skill and efficiency in order to operate the GUI. There are many situations which further make the navigation difficult. Ideally the user should face no difficulties in navigating through the user interface. Any operation in the graphical user interface should require minimum pointer operations from the user (Ideal Final Result).This objective of a graphical user interface has led to several inventions trying to make the navigation simple and efficient. The article analyzes some inventions from US Patent database and illustrates how each of them has tried to solve different problems of navigation in a graphical user interface