TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring user preference for the dashboard menu design
AU - Read, Aaron
AU - Tarrell, Alvin
AU - Fruhling, Ann
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - User interfaces generally rely on a main menu for navigation and orientation. Therefore, the main (navigational) menu layout design is a determinant of user performance and satisfaction levels. Effective menu designs also help users avoid feeling lost and disoriented when seeking information or finding functionality. Research on menu design finds that an understanding of users' ability to recognize a menu layout through positional and semantic grouping of menu items helps explain design effectiveness and user preference. Our research compares an expandable index menu layout design to a frame-based (dashboard) design, and finds that the positional and semantic groupings of the frame-based (dashboard) design were preferred. Real clients using a live system participated in this study using the Think Aloud usability evaluation method. This research is significant in that it contributes to ongoing work in development of effective user interfaces, and in that it strengthens the findings of earlier researchers.
AB - User interfaces generally rely on a main menu for navigation and orientation. Therefore, the main (navigational) menu layout design is a determinant of user performance and satisfaction levels. Effective menu designs also help users avoid feeling lost and disoriented when seeking information or finding functionality. Research on menu design finds that an understanding of users' ability to recognize a menu layout through positional and semantic grouping of menu items helps explain design effectiveness and user preference. Our research compares an expandable index menu layout design to a frame-based (dashboard) design, and finds that the positional and semantic groupings of the frame-based (dashboard) design were preferred. Real clients using a live system participated in this study using the Think Aloud usability evaluation method. This research is significant in that it contributes to ongoing work in development of effective user interfaces, and in that it strengthens the findings of earlier researchers.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2009.213
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2009.213
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:63349083107
SN - 9780769534503
T3 - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS
BT - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS
T2 - 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS
Y2 - 5 January 2009 through 9 January 2009
ER -