UX is often about hiding the things users don’t
care about so that they get the simplest experience possible. Most users
wouldn’t even know how to read a line of Java code, much less what that means to
them. My Master’s project was designing transparency mechanisms for games that
utilized AI agents. Essentially, the challenge was to present the state of the
AI agent in such a way that the user understood what the AI agent was doing and
why but also explain the algorithm in laymen’s terms. In most interfaces,
transparency won’t be that complicated, but we still need to consider when we
might want to present transparency to a user. Here’s 5 quick tips about
transparency in UIs. Transparent Laptop 07 more images after the break...
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