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Defining Recommendations to Guide User Interface Design: Multimethod Approach

BACKGROUND: For the development of digital solutions, different aspects of user interface design must be taken into consideration. Different technologies, interaction paradigms, user characteristics and needs, and interface design components are some of the aspects that designers and developers shou...

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Autores principales: Diehl, Ceci, Martins, Ana, Almeida, Ana, Silva, Telmo, Ribeiro, Óscar, Santinha, Gonçalo, Rocha, Nelson, Silva, Anabela G
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Publicado: JMIR Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36178714
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/37894
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author Diehl, Ceci
Martins, Ana
Almeida, Ana
Silva, Telmo
Ribeiro, Óscar
Santinha, Gonçalo
Rocha, Nelson
Silva, Anabela G
author_facet Diehl, Ceci
Martins, Ana
Almeida, Ana
Silva, Telmo
Ribeiro, Óscar
Santinha, Gonçalo
Rocha, Nelson
Silva, Anabela G
author_sort Diehl, Ceci
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description BACKGROUND: For the development of digital solutions, different aspects of user interface design must be taken into consideration. Different technologies, interaction paradigms, user characteristics and needs, and interface design components are some of the aspects that designers and developers should pay attention to when designing a solution. Many user interface design recommendations for different digital solutions and user profiles are found in the literature, but these recommendations have numerous similarities, contradictions, and different levels of detail. A detailed critical analysis is needed that compares, evaluates, and validates existing recommendations and allows the definition of a practical set of recommendations. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyze and synthesize existing user interface design recommendations and propose a practical set of recommendations that guide the development of different technologies. METHODS: Based on previous studies, a set of recommendations on user interface design was generated following 4 steps: (1) interview with user interface design experts; (2) analysis of the experts’ feedback and drafting of a set of recommendations; (3) reanalysis of the shorter list of recommendations by a group of experts; and (4) refining and finalizing the list. RESULTS: The findings allowed us to define a set of 174 recommendations divided into 12 categories, according to usability principles, and organized into 2 levels of hierarchy: generic (69 recommendations) and specific (105 recommendations). CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that user interface design recommendations can be divided according to usability principles and organized into levels of detail. Moreover, this study reveals that some recommendations, as they address different technologies and interaction paradigms, need further work.
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spelling pubmed-95688192022-10-16 Defining Recommendations to Guide User Interface Design: Multimethod Approach Diehl, Ceci Martins, Ana Almeida, Ana Silva, Telmo Ribeiro, Óscar Santinha, Gonçalo Rocha, Nelson Silva, Anabela G JMIR Hum Factors Original Paper BACKGROUND: For the development of digital solutions, different aspects of user interface design must be taken into consideration. Different technologies, interaction paradigms, user characteristics and needs, and interface design components are some of the aspects that designers and developers should pay attention to when designing a solution. Many user interface design recommendations for different digital solutions and user profiles are found in the literature, but these recommendations have numerous similarities, contradictions, and different levels of detail. A detailed critical analysis is needed that compares, evaluates, and validates existing recommendations and allows the definition of a practical set of recommendations. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyze and synthesize existing user interface design recommendations and propose a practical set of recommendations that guide the development of different technologies. METHODS: Based on previous studies, a set of recommendations on user interface design was generated following 4 steps: (1) interview with user interface design experts; (2) analysis of the experts’ feedback and drafting of a set of recommendations; (3) reanalysis of the shorter list of recommendations by a group of experts; and (4) refining and finalizing the list. RESULTS: The findings allowed us to define a set of 174 recommendations divided into 12 categories, according to usability principles, and organized into 2 levels of hierarchy: generic (69 recommendations) and specific (105 recommendations). CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that user interface design recommendations can be divided according to usability principles and organized into levels of detail. Moreover, this study reveals that some recommendations, as they address different technologies and interaction paradigms, need further work. JMIR Publications 2022-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9568819/ /pubmed/36178714 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/37894 Text en ©Ceci Diehl, Ana Martins, Ana Almeida, Telmo Silva, Óscar Ribeiro, Gonçalo Santinha, Nelson Rocha, Anabela G Silva. Originally published in JMIR Human Factors (https://humanfactors.jmir.org), 30.09.2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Human Factors, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://humanfactors.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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