Visual Design

2011 ◽  
pp. 62-88
Author(s):  
John DiMarco
Keyword(s):  
Visual Design ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
Visual Persuasion ◽  
Design Attributes ◽  
Portfolio Design ◽  
Role Of Information ◽  
The Web

This chapter explores visual design and the methods used to develop Web site storyboards and screen creation. This process is a critical step in the Web portfolio design process because it enables visual persuasion and allows for a cohesive composition throughout the product. Many Web portfolio sites are poorly designed visually. The reasons surrounding this are too many to be discussed fully in this text. However, we will take a proactive approach and explain the qualities that are important in good visual design of Web pages. In addition, we will look at some bad Web portfolio design attributes to get a sense of what is not quite effective when it comes to visual persuasion. The notion of bad design is subjective, but also, design has objective, measurable attributes that lead to visual quality. Many bad designs come from non-art and non-visual disciplines. Technology experts may be poor designers because they focus too much on technology bells and whistles and less on the user. However, design is emergent and eventually everyone can get better with practice and exposure to design. I hope this chapter will act as a catalyst for people who already have a Web portfolio to assess the quality of their design. I would like the new readers to begin to build good habits in their actions as visual and communication designers. Regardless of discipline, when you create a Web portfolio you become a designer. You are developing an information product that serves to solve a communication problem. Therefore, you are playing the role of information designer, communication designer, and graphic designer. These are roles which you must take seriously because they affect persuasion and appearance. Making your Web portfolio site look good is as important as feeling good about it, because if it looks good and you feel good about it, you’ll tell people about it. Remember, the goal of the Web portfolio is to promote you and your accomplishments, so looks count.

scholarly journals The visual categorization of production automotive seats on descriptors of comfort

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (s1) ◽  
pp. S69-S85
Author(s):  
Tugra Erol ◽  
Cyriel Diels ◽  
James Shippen ◽  
Dale Richards
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Clustering ◽  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
Hierarchical Clustering Analysis ◽  
Card Sorting ◽  
Design Attributes ◽  
Comfort Perception ◽  
Automotive Production

BACKGROUND: The role of appearance of automotive seats on perceived comfort and comfort expectancy has been acknowledged in previous research but it has not been investigated in depth. OBJECTIVE: To identify the effects of the appearance of production automotive seats, based on the hypothesis that visual design differentiations are affective in creating comfort expectations. The significance of the descriptors Sporty, Luxurious and Comfortable and the associated visual design attributes was of interest. METHOD: Images from 38 automotive production seats were used in an image-based card sorting app (qCard) with a total of 24 participants. Participants were asked to categorize the different seat designs varying from 1: least, to 9: most for all three descriptors.The resulting data was analyzed using hierarchical clustering analysis. RESULTS: The results indicated that the perceived Sporty, Luxurious and Comfortable were descriptor items that significantly differentiated seats with certain design attributes. It was found that for the Sporty perception the integrated headrest design and angular shapes were key. On the other hand, the Comfort perception was characterised by seating with a separate headrest and rounded seat back/cushion shapes. CONCLUSIONS: For seat design processes, the method enables a practical way to identify elements conveying Sporty, Comfortable and Luxurious perception.

The Role of Green Accounting Information In Improving The Quality Of Accounting Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wasan Yahia Ahmed ◽  
Suaad Adnan Noaman Al-Shammari ◽  
Ahmed Taher Kadhim Al-Anbagi
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Green Accounting ◽  
Quality Of Accounting Information ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Role Of Information

The subject of green accounting is one of the modern topics in accounting science, which has received great attention by researchers and writers because of its great role in measuring and disclosing environmental activities and in line with the interests of internal and external users of accounting information.  The research stems from a fundamental problem that taking into account the costs of green accounting within the financial statements of economic units would improve the quality of accounting information provided to users. To achieve the goal of the research, a questionnaire was designed and submitted to the stakeholders of users of information and employees of a number of economic units listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange, as well as the use of different statistical methods and methods to extract results related to the role of information on green accounting in improving the quality of accounting information provided by Before economic units. The research reached several results, the most important of which was the need to take into account the costs of green accounting and manifested within the financial statements of economic units, because of its role in improving the quality of accounting information and commensurate with the interests of users, so it should work to measure those costs and disclosed to contribute to Meet the wishes and interests of users of financial statements.

scholarly journals PREDICTION OF DESIGN ASPECTS OF WEB PAGE BY HTML PARSER

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Satinder Kaur ◽  
Sunil Gupta
Keyword(s):  
User Interaction ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Design Quality ◽  
Automated Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Web

Inform plays a very important role in life and nowadays, the world largely depends on the World Wide Web to obtain any information. Web comprises of a lot of websites of every discipline, whereas websites consists of web pages which are interlinked with each other with the help of hyperlinks. The success of a website largely depends on the design aspects of the web pages. Researchers have done a lot of work to appraise the web pages quantitatively. Keeping in mind the importance of the design aspects of a web page, this paper aims at the design of an automated evaluation tool which evaluate the aspects for any web page. The tool takes the HTML code of the web page as input, and then it extracts and checks the HTML tags for the uniformity. The tool comprises of normalized modules which quantify the measures of design aspects. For realization, the tool has been applied on four web pages of distinct sites and design aspects have been reported for comparison. The tool will have various advantages for web developers who can predict the design quality of web pages and enhance it before and after implementation of website without user interaction.

scholarly journals Role of Information in Farmers’ Response to Weather and Water Related Stresses in the Lower Bengal Delta, Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uthpal Kumar ◽  
Saskia Werners ◽  
Sharmishtha Roy ◽  
Sadia Ashraf ◽  
Long Phi Hoang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Salt Intrusion ◽  
Bengal Delta ◽  
Climatic Information ◽  
Role Of Information

Farmers in the lower Bengal Delta around the city of Khulna, Bangladesh, are particularly vulnerable to hydro-climatic variability. Phenomena such as heavy rain, drought and salt intrusion increasingly affect their crop production, with far-reaching socio-economic and environmental impacts. Reliable hydro-climatic information service received in a timely manner could help farmers improve their responses to hydro-climatic variability, thus improving their agricultural decision-making. However, significant challenges persist regarding information uptake and the role of information from the available sources. We designed an explorative research framework combining different participatory methods and analysis of climate data. Our aim was to examine three key research questions: (i) what information is currently available to farmers for agricultural practices and decision-making? (ii) what is the perceived quality of the available hydro-climatic information in response to water and weather related stresses? (iii) how does the available information influence farmers’ decision-making? We found that farmers had access to information from five main sources: informal contacts, formal contacts, education and training programs, traditional media (like television) and modern ICT tools/social media. However, informal contacts, particularly with peer farmers and private input suppliers, were the farmers’ main source, in addition to their own previous experiences. Farmers perceived hydro-climatic variability as high and the quality of available hydro-climatic information as poor. They indicated a need for more accurate, time-specific, trusted and actionable information for improving agricultural decision-making. We conclude that there is high potential and need for hydro-climatic information services tailored for farmers in the study area.

scholarly journals Heterogeneity of demand and product innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Caliari ◽  
Marco Valente ◽  
Ricardo Machado Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Product Innovation ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Choice Procedures ◽  
Differentiated Goods ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Role Of Information

Abstract This paper discusses the relationship between heterogeneity of demand regarding choice procedures and product innovation. We propose an evolutionary model showing how consumers with imperfect information chose and select differentiated goods. The model shows the role of information and choice procedures and its relation with the innovative process. The price plays an important role, but the quality of information, error tolerance and criteria for preference ordering are important determinants of the performance of firms in an industry with product innovation.

Webometric Analysis and Link Relationship of Computer Science and Information Technology Websites of Malaysia Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 1260-1265
Author(s):  
Mohd Sharul Hafiz Razak ◽  
Nor Azman Ismail ◽  
Alif Fikri Mohktar ◽  
Su Elya Namira ◽  
Nurina Izzati Ramzi
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Content Strategy ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Web

This paper aims to investigate 18 web domains of computer science and information technology academic websites of Malaysia universities.We collected more than two million web pages. A webometric analysis was used to explore the number of web pages, inbound links, the web impact factor (WIF) and link relationships. The results show Fakulti Teknologi dan Sains Maklumat (FTSM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) has the highest number of webpages while Fakulti Teknologi Kreatif dan Warisan (FTKW), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) has the largest WIF score. Pearson’s rank correlation coefficient was used to detect the relationship between institutions subdomain age and WIF. Correlations point out that there is scant relationship between subdomain age and WIF score across all 18 Malaysia selected schools [r =−.076, n = 18, p < .0005]. This is due to WIF are highly dependent on the quality of the content to attract backlinks and Google crawler algorithm that changes from time to time for the number of web pages. Subdomain age is independent to the year of establishment of the schools. These findings can be used as a guide to the implementation of university web content strategy.

scholarly journals On the Visual Design of ERP Systems The – Role of Information Complexity, Presentation and Human Factors

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 448-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Mittelstädt ◽  
Philipp Brauner ◽  
Matthias Blum ◽  
Martina Ziefle
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
Information Complexity ◽  
Erp Systems ◽  
Role Of Information

scholarly journals Perencanaan Strategis Sistem Informasi Pada UPT Perpustakaan (Studi Kasus: UPT Perpustakaan STMIK Palangka Raya)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Arliyana Arliyana ◽  
Hafiz Riyadli
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Role Of Information

The role of information systems and information technology is indispensable in a variety of fields of work and human resources required to have good quality so it could use the technology appropriately. The library is space that contained a lot of catalogs needed for learning and teachingas media seek knowledge and insight for students and lecturer, then the required information system that can hold all the information about then added data quickly and accurately. Therefore, the library shoidbeable to capitaliz on the presence of information technology to improve the quality of its services. It takes a strategic planning of information systems/information technology that isusedas the basis for the construction of an idea information system and in accordance with user needs.Strategic planning of information systems at the Library STMIK Palangka Raya using the methodology Wardand Peppard (Ward, 2002). With the strategic planning of the library can analyze and evaluate theexisting potential of the entire surroundings of the library in order to develop them selves in accordance with the progress of informationand communication technology as well as libraries have a guide in theform of strategies that should be run in the field of informationtechnolog y to improve its performance.It has a good performance of the library will be able to provide acompetitive advantage for the Organization so that it can continue tocompete in today's global era.

Solving Accessibility and Other Problems in School and Classroom Web Sites

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleborne D. Maddux
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Special Educators ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The Internet and the World Wide Web are growing at unprecedented rates. More and more teachers are authoring school or classroom web pages. Such pages have particular potential for use in rural areas by special educators, children with special needs, and the parents of children with special needs. The quality of many of these pages leaves much to be desired. All web pages, especially those authored by special educators should be accessible for people with disabilities. Many other problems complicate use of the web for all users, whether or not they have disabilities. By taking some simple steps, beginning webmasters can avoid these problems. This article discusses practical solutions to common accessibility problems and other problems seen commonly on the web.

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