Exploring the intuitiveness of iconic, textual and icon with texts signs for designing user-intuitive web interfaces

Abstract

Web interface signs such as navigation links, command buttons, thumbnails, small images, and icons are crucial elements of web user interfaces, which act as a communication artifact between the computer and the human (user). In other words, users interact with a web interface via interface signs. Designing intuitive interface sign become essential to make an effective human-computer interaction (HCI). But, a very limited HCI research has been focused on interface sign to design them intuitive for end users. In this paper, an extensive empirical user study was carried out through semi-structured interviews. The study found a set of underlying features for HCI practitioners to design intuitive interface signs in order to construct web interfaces intuitive for end users.