How do Users Perceive Applying Web Design Guidelines

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goal of this paper is to present the approach for a corpus of tested web design guide-. lines, the main characteristics of the survey are only briefly …

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How do Users Perceive Applying
Web Design Guidelines?
Quentin Limbourg and Jean Vanderdonckt
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) - Institut d’Administration et de Gestion (IAG)
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{limbourg,vanderdonckt}@qant.ucl.ac.be
Abstract. The plethora of available Web design guidelines induces a credibility
problem for designers: since most guidelines come from sources having various
confidences, to what extent does applying these guidelines lead to a more usable
web site that will be better accepted by users? A corpus of tested web design
guidelines is therefore expected to answer that question. To reach such a corpus,
five steps were performed: firstly, guidelines sources were categorized according
to a source model; secondly, the most representative and interesting guidelines
sources were selected according to certain criteria; thirdly, the selected
guidelines were then categorized according to a general purpose model and subsequently
gathered into an initial corpus; fourthly, particular guidelines subject
to a user survey were identified; fifthly, these guidelines have been tested to see
if users perceive any benefit in applying them. A first corpus of…