User Interface

Definition

User Interface (UI)

1. Also known as Graphical User Interface (GUI), a UI is the way that players interact and communicate with the game. It consists of windows and context menus that can include a title bar, text, images, buttons, edit boxes, dialog boxes, menus, reticles, names, or anything the player interacts with that is rendered in 2 dimensions and that is not part of the 3D world.
2. The input and output devices used to interact and communicate with the game.

Also See:

• The Players' Guide to the Cities/User Interface