Design guidelines for web applications based on local patterns
César I. Llanos, Marcia Muñoz · 2007
We present the results of a project to determine web design guidelines bases on user interface design patterns present in Chilean web applications. The scope of the work is restricted to web applications in the .cl domain. We consider three types of web applications: web sites, search engines and blogs. First, we chose a study sample of 178 web sites, 4 search engines and 16 blogs. Then, a typical web application's elements were identified, and their most common page locations were determined. Usability tests were performed on a representative sample of web sites so as to evaluate them qualitatively and thus determine which elements are relevant to the users from a usability point of view. Finally, we derive design guidelines for the most representative features for each type of web application, based on analysis of the study sample and the usability test results.