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Semiotics Perception towards Designing Users’ Intuitive Web User Interface: A Study on Interface Signs

Muhammad Nazrul Islam, Semiotics Perception towards Designing Users’ Intuitive Web User Interface: A Study on Interface Signs. In: Hakikur Rahman, Anabela Mesquita, Isabel Ramos, Barbara Pernici (Eds.), 7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 129, 139–155, Springer, 2012.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33244-9_10

Abstract:

Web interface signs (e.g., navigational link, button, image, command affordance, thumbnails, etc.) are complicated as well as crucial elements of web user interfaces. Interface signs act as a means of users’ interaction and communication artifacts with a web application. Designing intuitive interface signs contributes to improve the users’ understanding, satisfaction, communicability of web interfaces, and the like. Sign design principles are semiotics by nature; since semiotics is the doctrine of signs. Therefore, the fundamental objective of this study was to reveal the features of user intuitive interface signs for boosting web usability from a semiotics point of view. In order to achieve this research goal, a systematic empirical study was conducted on 404 web signs and revealed a number of semiotics considerations for designing user intuitive web interface signs to improve applications’ usability.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{cIslam_MuhammadNazrul12a,
  title = {Semiotics Perception towards Designing Users’ Intuitive Web User Interface: A Study on Interface Signs},
  booktitle = {7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems},
  author = {Islam, Muhammad Nazrul},
  volume = {129},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
  editor = {Rahman, Hakikur and Mesquita, Anabela and Ramos, Isabel and Pernici, Barbara},
  publisher = {Springer},
  pages = {139–155},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {Semiotics, web interface, web usability, interface design, web sign ontology.},
}

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