Assessing interaction styles in web user interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Alistair Sutcliffe;Antonella De Angeli

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP TC13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

An evaluation of two websites with the same content but different interface styles (traditional menu-based and interactive metaphors) is described. A formative usability evaluation was carried out with heuristic assessment of aesthetics followed by post-test memory. The subjects had more problems with the metaphor-based site, but rated it more favourably on the aesthetics heuristics. There was no difference in free memory recall between the sites. The implications for website design and evaluation are discussed.