Interface Design and Written Decription

Thomas Martin     112 - P2              Written Description

For my interface I wanted to make mine as simple as possible and not throw hard data and graphs at the user because many people find that to be intimidating. I still want to have some hard data for those that want it but not so much that it overpowers them and puts them off. The aim of my interface is to have a basic expanding system which tells the general ‘power usage attitude’ of the house and when expanded it can go into depth of which areas of the house are using the most energy and which ones are using the least. When further expanded it will show within those areas which appliances or which aspect of that area is using the power. This will be told through a simple pie graph which shows each appliance within the corresponding area and the power being used through the use of colours. Even further expanded shows the hard data, volts, price, etc. The majority of the interface will be circles, to fit with the basic attitude and to get more people to easily interact with it. This will all be done on a computer due to most people having access to some form of computer in the home.