This article tries to explain more in depth what a system interface is. (A system interface is sometimes also called a 'user interface' or a 'graphical user interface')
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To work with a system, the users need to be able to control the system and assess the state of the system. For example, when driving an automobile, the driver uses the steering wheel to control the direction of the vehicle, and the accelerator pedal, brake pedal and gearstick to control the speed of the vehicle.
The driver perceives the position of the vehicle by looking through the windscreen and exact speed of the vehicle by reading the speedometer. The system interface of the automobile is the instruments the driver can use to accomplish the tasks of driving and maintaining the automobile.
The design of a user interface affects the amount of effort the user must expend to provide input for the system and to interpret the output of the system, and how much effort it takes to learn how to do this. Usability is the degree to which the design of a particular user interface takes into account the human psychology and physiology of the users, and makes the process of using the system effective, efficient and satisfying.
Usability is mainly a characteristic of the 'user interface', but is also associated with the functionalities of the product. It describes how well a product can be used for its intended purpose by its target users with efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction, also taking into account the requirements from its context of use.
These functionalities or features are not always parts of the user interface (e.g. are you able to reverse with your car or not), yet they are key elements in the usability of a product.
SUMMARY: In short, system interfaces are used to make something easy to use. E.g. you have lots of documents within your company that you need different people to access. These people might be marketing and sales (people on the inside of the company), and they may be customers, (people on the outside of the company). You can't just use an FTP server because not everybody understands how to use that. What you need is a nice graphical user interface, (a system interface), that allows users to login with an internet browser and access what documents they need.
A system interface is the user friendly panel that allows a normal human being, with little tecnical skills, to control something.
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