Interface Design Rules Research Articles

Usability Evaluation and Interface Design Improvement for the Maxim Application with User-Centered Design Approach

The research focused on the user interface of the Maxim application, a ride-hailing service in Indonesia facing usability challenges compared to its competitors, such as Gojek, Grab, and inDrive. The study aimed to identify user issues and propose alternative interface designs to enhance usability. The User-Centered Design (UCD) approach was adopted, involving two iterative phases that yielded high-fidelity designs. Through online surveys and interviews, 77 problem categories were identified, adhering to Usability Heuristic principles, and 93 design solutions were crafted based on Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design. Subsequently, the design solutions were evaluated through moderated usability testing (UT) and the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire distribution. The second iteration's UT results indicated improved success rates, reduced task completion times, higher SUS scores, and positive user feedback on ease of use. In conclusion, this research improved the application's usability and offered valuable recommendations for further enhancements and future investigations.

Designing an Electronic Logbook System for Monitoring Postgraduate Research Students Progress

A logbook is an essential component of any research project, whether you are a research scientist or a research student. The logbook will serve as the primary source of record for lab activity as well as thought processes for data analysis and experiment planning. The study discovered that electronic logbooks (E-Logbook) can increase data quality and generate more accurate findings than traditional logbooks. Additionally, utilizing an e-logbook improves the monitoring process and ensures that the research is completed within the time frame. Therefore, the primary purpose of this project is to develop a real-time system for monitoring postgraduate students' research activities. The development part of this system uses the adapted agile model and the theory of Eight Golden Rules for Interface Design. Furthermore, to assure the effective and smooth operation of the e-logbook system, a test plan and questionnaires will be conducted.

Development and Evaluation of a Mobile-Learning Application Based on the Felder-Silverman Learning Styles Model

Every student has a different learning style. Not all of these learning styles can be facilitated through classroom learning. Mobile learning (m-learning) is the use of mobile technology to support learning activities and facilitate a variety of student learning styles. However, no previous studies of the development of m-learning products have tested the possibility of facilitating different learning styles within a single M-learning application. This study describes the development and evaluation of an adaptive m-learning application that can facilitate the needs of different students. The Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model was used as the reference for learning styles. The prototype application was developed using the user-centered design method, which includes user needs analysis, interaction design, application development, and usability testing. The designers followed the best practices laid out in Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design and Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction. A usability test of the prototype involving ten participants. Usability testing is carried out by conducting usability testing and filling out the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire by all participants. The result found that it had good usability.

Mathematics courseware for dyscalculia students (MCDYs)

MCDys is a courseware created as a learning tool for students with dyscalculia. The syllabus is developed based on the Linus module that is provided by the Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia (KPM). Dyscalculia is a term used for learners that have a disability in learning mathematics. In developing this courseware, ADDIE model is used. ADDIE is a framework that many instructional designers and developers use to develop the courses. There are five stages in ADDIE Model which are analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. To design the interface, Schneiderman's eight golden rules of interface design is used. Schneiderman's eight golden rules include striving for consistency, enabling frequent users to use shortcuts, offering informative feedback, designing dialogue to yield closure, offering simple error handling, permitting easy reversal of actions, supporting internal locus of control and reducing short-term memory load. The content of the courseware uses interactive approaches such as video, animation, and quizzes, and game-based activities to encourage users’ understanding and grab their attention. User evaluation and expert evaluation were conducted to test the effectiveness and acceptance of the interface, usability, activity, navigation, multimedia, sound, image, text, animation, and video. The results show that the courseware has the highest score for usability score with a mean of 4.6(SD=0.55). For future enhancement, more animation will be explored to suit the dyscalculia students’ learning.
 Keywords: courseware, Dyscalculia, ADDIE Model, Mathematics, Schneiderman’s

Designing User Experience and User Interface of a B2B Textile e-Commerce using Five Planes Framework

The textile industry needs an e-commerce platform to facilitate purchase of textile goods and to improve connectivity between industries. The textile industry has distinct characteristics from other industry, from its supply chain characteristics to the details of goods sold. Therefore, Indonesia Smart Textile Industry Hub (ISTIH) as a textile e-commerce platform needs to implement different strategy from e-commerce in general. Different strategies will affect the design of user experience or user experience in e-commerce. This journal will discuss how to design e-commerce specifically for textiles using the five planes method. The strategy plane produced the objectives and user needs of e-commerce, the scope plane produced the list of the required features, the structure plane produced detailed flow of user activities, the skeleton plane produced layout designs and information organization in the form of wireframes, and the surface plane produced the design up to the level of interface detail. The interface detail is also designed to meet eight golden rules of interface design. The output produced in this study is the design of the textile e-commerce interface on the alpha version of the website.

EVALUASI DAN PENGEMBANGAN ALTERNATIF DESAIN ANTARMUKA E-CAMPUS STIKOM AMBON

E-Campus adalah sebuah media pendukung sistem administrasi dan kegiatan akademis yang digunakan untuk meningkatkan efektifitas dan efisiensi kegiatan kampus. Namun, e-Campus dibuat dan dikembangkan oleh pihak publik untuk memenuhi kebutuhan secara umum, yang artinya tidak dibuat untuk memenuhi semua kebutuhan kampus secara spesifik yang berdapampak pada kegiatan administrasi dan akademik kampus seperti fitur-fitur yang tidak terpakai, tidak berhubungan dengan kegiatan kampus. Lebih lanjut lagi, bagi mahasiswa dan dosen, terdapat bagian formulir yang tidak lengkap, dan lain sebagainya. Evaluasi pada sistem e-Campus dilakukan dengan menerapkan multi metode yang terdiri dari uji usability dengan mengamati kesulitan responden dalam memanfaatkan fungsi/fitur e-Campus secara khusus dan juga system usability scale untuk menilai sistem secara menyeluruh. Hasil menujukkan tidak satupun skenario yang berhasil diselesaikan tanpa bantuan (hint). Lebih lanjut completion rates untuk task 13 dan 18 adalah 0% dari jumlah pengguna. Selain itu, semua task diselesaikan peserta tidak on-time. Permasalahan utama terdapat pada tampilan halaman, toolbar, sistem navigasi, dan juga halaman yang tidak lengkap. Selanjutnya, prototipe e-camapus dibangun berdasarkan Shneiderman’s 8 golden rules of interface design rules shneiderman dan mempertimbangkan masukan dari tahapan evaluasi.

Survey of designing user interface for mobile applications

This search aims to explore the issues in developing the User Interface in mobile devices applications which is known as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The challenges that face the designers in developing the mobile UI are how to create usable and efficient UI and what are the guidelines or principles they should take into account to make interactive and interaction design. In addition, the software and hardware limitations they are encountered with, and also how they involve the users and their experience in designing process according to User-Centered (UCD) principles are considered. I gave the concepts for user interface, HCI, UCD, and usability issue and its relationship to designing process. Also I mentioned the general guidelines which are known as Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design that should be considered. Moreover I explored that each platform nowadays has its own guidelines for best development of interaction process and that is why the applications of specific stage have the same layout. And I conclude that there is need for new methodologies and strategies of designing user interface that differs from methods used for developing traditional user interfaces due to enormous evolution of mobile devices and people's preference of such technology.

Pengembangan Model Perangkat Ajar Berbasis Animasi: Studi Kasus Mata Ajar Biologi pada SMP Yaspia dan SMK Bina Manajemen Cakung Jakarta Timur

Use of the Internet at schools grows advanced. Therefore, teachers need to learn the use of technology in creating good teaching materials (learning objects) such as animation-based materials. Those materials will result will in a component in a learning system that allows students to interactively learn and evaluate themselves against the subject mastery. A tool for creating such an animated material like Powerpoint produces presentations enhanced with audio and video that allows students to comprehend the lessons more easily. The model system uses interactive multimedia system design and development with the following phases: (1) system requirements, (2) design considerations, (3) implementation, (4) evaluation. While user interface design principles uses eight golden rules of interface design. As a test case, selected Biology at Yaspia junior high school and Bina Management vocational school. From the results it can be concluded that this application module can support students in obtaining the required data completeness. The tutorials are quite sufficient to facilitate students in understanding the material.