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User Interfaces for CS559

The projects that you build in CS559 will be interactive, so you will need to make user interfaces for them.

Designing and programming user interfaces is a whole big topic unto itself. And this is a graphics class, not necessarily a UI class. But, UIs are a good way to explore some graphics topics, and better UIs make for more fun projects. So there's a tradeoff- do you spend more time on making nicer interfaces, or do you make a simple interface and spend more time on the graphics parts.

For the projects, we will give you the choice. You can make very minimal user interfaces (things have to be usable enough that you can test out the graphics), or you can do fancier things.

Its actually a useful skill to understand what a "minimal interface" is, and how to get something in place so you can focus on the graphics.