a tool to design UIs with better ergonomics and reduced cognitive-load
InterUnit-UI is a WIMP alternative that improves ergonomics and reduces cognitive-load.
Ergonomix is an app for developing PC-app UIs using the InterUnit-UI SDK in C++.
It helps improve developer efficiency.
It has a source-code editor this is similarly advanced as the editors in Xcode, VisualStudio and CLion,
and includes efficient code-navigation techniques specially designed for InterUnit-UI based design.
InterUnit-UI
Ergonomix: differentiating features
Simplicity for the developer. Ergonomix is far easier to design UIs with because it is based on InterUnit-UI and not WIMP. There are only 2 simple SDK constructs and code-navigation is very simple.
Easy to target UI ergonomic-efficiency. An InterUnit can be initially created and then iteratively refined to target and improve usage ergonomics. This can be done independent of other InterUnits or the hosting EngagementManager.
Better code-reuse. It provides access to an InterUnit marketplace, where developers can buy or sell InterUnits, much like an app store, but only for developers (not end-users). Each InterUnit is written and optimised independently. Once its usability has been verified, it can be re-used as a unit by other developers. In WIMP, reuse uccurs at the interactive-screen-widget level. Most commonly, a WIMP-based framework producer produces a library of such widgets and developers reuse them. Note that this is not reuse at a user-function level but a UI-function level.
Included Utilities -- Screen-layout and data-editing.
Ergonomix includes a few specially designed components both to help improve UI ergonomics
and simplify app-development, such as:
1) A hexagonal-lattice based screen-layout component,
enables screen-layout on a hexagonal and not cartesian lattice.
2) Data-representation and parsing components for a full-featured C++ parser.
These can be used as a basis to design InterUnits for editing any kind of data.
Targeted devices
Linux
1) Ubuntu based desktops,
2) Linux on ARM based Android smartphones or laptops
3) Raspberry Pi based laptop like systems
Ergonomix will be a full-fledged IDE, similar to CLion.
It could be used to develop InterUnits, apps,
or a Linux front-end DesktopEnvironment and WindowManager.
MacOS and Windows Ergonomix will be only a CodeEditor to be used in conjunction with Xcode or VisualStudio (compile, link, debug). We could make it a standalone IDE, later, using Clang and LLDB.
Product Timeline We are currently developing the code for Ergonomix. We plan to announce a demo-date soon.
Licensing Khitchdee Design plans to license Ergonomix to individual developers or developer teams.
Showcase Apps
A CAD tool -- The Specifier (
), is being built using Ergonomix (by Khitchdee Design).