Abstract: It is a studying worthy problem in interface design whether the operator can deal with lots of information quickly and correctly under time pressure in human-computer interaction of a complex system.How to use reasonable encoding models to optimize interface design is researched in this paper,according to the influences of time pressures on cognitive behaviors.According to the variable-level description of the Subject Workload Assessment Technique and vision gaze,time pressures is divided into three levels as high,medium,low,and the presentation time of each level corresponds to 200,600 and 1000 ms.With the help of the experiment,the influences of time pressures on color and shape cognition are analyzed.The results show that the cognition of color was more and quicker than the cognition of shape under time pressures within 1000 ms.Finally,the improved effect of color encoding on rapid recognition of multiple messages was tested and verified,with the emulational interface design of A320 airplane Electronic Centralized Aircraft Monitor system as demonstrative object.