A Customisable and Responsive Design Online Booking System

Over the past decade, responsive web design (RWD) has become the de facto standard for adapting web pages to a wide range of devices used for browsing. While RWD has improved the usability of web pages, it is not without drawbacks and limitations: designers and developers must manually design the web layouts for multiple screen sizes and implement associated adaptation rules, and its "one responsive design fits all" approach lacks support for personalization. This paper presents a novel approach for automated generation of responsive and personalized web layouts. Given an existing web page design and preferences related to design objectives, our integer programming -based optimizer generates a consistent set of web designs. Where relevant data is available, these can be further automatically personalized for the user and browsing device. The paper includes presentation of techniques for runtime adaptation of the designs generated into a fully responsive grid layout for web browsing. Results from our ratings-based online studies with end users (N = 86) and designers (N = 64) show that the proposed approach can automatically create high-quality responsive web layouts for a variety of real-world websites.

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The Psychological Supportive Design Features in Hospitals: Case of a Public Jordanian Hospital in Amman

HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal ◽

10.1177/19375867211029560 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 193758672110295

Author(s):

Nadine Al-Bqour ◽

Shaher Rababeh ◽

Rama Al-Rabady

Keyword(s):

Interior Design ◽

Public Hospital ◽

Psychological Needs ◽

Design Features ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Hospital Design ◽

Third World Country ◽

Responsive Design ◽

Healing Environments ◽

Supportive Design

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a practical framework that combines the psychological supportive design features in hospitals’ healing environments, also, to examine the implementation of these features in a Jordanian public hospital. Background: Positive psychological feelings are the hidden powerful treatment in hospitals. Although that Jordan represents a third-world country, it is counted as one of the most sought-after healthcare locations in the Middle East for its distinguished healthcare serveries (Private Hospitals Association, 2019). Nevertheless, the architectural and interior design of the healthcare facilities in Jordan usually ignores the inpatients’ psychological needs. Also, there is an absence of practicing a set of psychological supportive design features to guide the hospitals’ design in Jordan. Method: Design features are obtained from the main theories in the field of supportive healing environments. A large Jordanian public hospital was selected to be assessed in terms of these features within the developed practical framework. This study adopts a mixed methodology; data are collected using different methods, mainly literature review, site inventory, and inpatients’ questionnaire. Results: The studied hospital remains moderately considerable in terms of the psychologically supportive design features. However, the nature connectivity aspect is not satisfactorily considered in the studied hospital design. Conclusion: This study suggests a responsive design that fosters interaction and integration with surrounding nature in order to increase levels of connectivity with nature. The studied design features in this study could work as guiding principles for Jordanian hospitals’ designers.

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Exploring the Limitations of Responsive Design Through a Case Study Approach

International Journal of Web Portals ◽

10.4018/ijwp.2021010104 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 62-73

Author(s):

Fernando Almeida ◽

José Augusto Monteiro

Keyword(s):

Adaptive Design ◽

Web Design ◽

Dynamic Adaptation ◽

Access Device ◽

Development Models ◽

Study Approach ◽

Responsive Design ◽

Responsive Web Design ◽

Further Development

Having an online presence is essential for any company regardless of its size and type of business. Users are currently striving to interact with companies through the web, regardless of their access device. In this sense, responsive web design emerged as a very useful technique that allows the dynamic adaptation of the design regardless of the size and resolution of the access device. Despite the unequivocal advantages associated with this technique, there are also limitations which turn this approach not feasible or advisable for all projects. This study, through the realization of five case studies, seeks to identify the main limitations of responsive design and responsive design frameworks. Additionally, this study suggests further development models that may be more effective in the dynamic adaptation of the design and contents according to the features of the access device, such as the adoption of adaptive design, use of native apps, and hybrid models.

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