DocumentCode
1086581
Title
The importance of being beautiful [user interfaces]
Author
Nielsen, Jakob
Author_Institution
SunSoft, Mountain View, CA
Volume
13
Issue
1
fYear
1996
fDate
1/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
92
Lastpage
94
Abstract
The paper presents some tools, techniques and concepts to optimize user interfaces and considers some World Wide Web home pages as examples of user interface design. The importance of being beautiful has implications for how we evaluate the usability of our designs. The paper discusses how user preference measures will be relatively more important than traditional measures such as tasks per minute
Keywords
Internet; human factors; online front-ends; systems analysis; user interfaces; World Wide Web; home pages; software tools; system usability; tasks per minute; user interface design; user preference measures; Computer hacking; Computer industry; Cost accounting; Cultural differences; Graphical user interfaces; Graphics; Internet; Productivity; Speech synthesis; User interfaces;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/52.476290
Filename
476290
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