Editing Transparency (human–computer interaction) (section)

== Examples ==
For example, the [[Network File System (protocol)|Network File System]] is transparent, because it introduces the access to files stored remotely on the network in a way uniform with previous local access to a [[file system]], so the user might even not notice it while using the folder hierarchy. The early [[File Transfer Protocol]] (FTP) is considerably less transparent, because it requires each user to learn how to access files through an ''ftp'' client.

Similarly, some file systems allow transparent [[data compression|compression]] and decompression of data, enabling users to store more files on a medium without any special knowledge; some file systems encrypt files transparently. This approach does not require running a compression or encryption utility manually.

In [[software engineering]], it is also considered good practice to develop or use abstraction layers for [[database]] access, so that the same application will work with different databases; here, the abstraction layer allows other parts of the program to access the database transparently (see [[Data Access Object]], for example).

In [[object-oriented programming]], transparency is facilitated through the use of [[Protocol (object-oriented programming)|interfaces]] that hide actual implementations done with different underlying [[Class (computer science)|classes]].