Visualizing user interfaces

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for visualizing user interfaces. In one aspect, a method includes presenting a user interface visualization for an application. The application is configured to perform functions and present a graphical user interface including user interface elements to access the functions. Presenting the user interface visualization for the application includes selecting a group of related functions and presenting a graphical representation for each related function. The graphical representations for the related functions are presented in proximity to each other, and the graphical representations are presented differently than the user interface elements for the related functions are presented by the graphical user interface of the application.

主权项

1. A method performed by one or more computers, the method comprising:
presenting a user interface visualization for an application,
wherein the application is configured to perform a plurality of functions, andwherein the application is configured to present a graphical user interface including a plurality of user interface elements to access the functions, andwherein presenting the user interface visualization for the application comprises:
selecting a group of related functions; andpresenting a respective graphical representation for each related function,
wherein the graphical representations are presented in proximity to each other, andwherein the graphical representations are presented differently than the user interface elements, andwherein the user interface visualization executes independently of the application on which the user interface visualization is built, andwherein the graphical user interface for the application is presented on a first display and the user interface visualization for the application is presented on a second display,
the first display and the second display are on first and second physically separate monitors of a computer system, respectively,wherein the graphical user interface for the application includes space for viewing a document and the user interface visualization lacks space for viewing a document, andwherein the user interface visualization presented on the second display executes and communicates in real-time with the application presented on the first display, andwherein the user interface visualization visually presents, for a particular function,
a difference between community usage data and expert usage data on the second display, and wherein the community usage data indicates an overall frequency for which the particular function, relative to other functions, is used by a community of users of the application, and wherein the expert usage data indicates a frequency for which the particular function is used by expert users.