Just In
- 5 hrs ago OnePlus 13 Early Leak Hints at a Revamped Camera Island, and Fast Charging to Remain at 100W
- 7 hrs ago Realme NARZO 70x 5G With 45W Charging Confirmed to Launch on April 24 Under Rs 12,000
- 8 hrs ago Samsung Neo QLED, OLED TVs Launched in India with AI-Driven Features
- 8 hrs ago Google Wallet is Coming to India Soon: Listing Appears on the Play Store
Don't Miss
- Finance How To Get Pre-Approved Loans At SBI? All You Need Is Four Clicks!
- Sports GT vs DC, IPL 2024: Rishabh Pant Shines as Delhi Capitals Cruise Past Gujarat Titans
- News IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals Beat Gujarat Titans By 6 Wickets
- Movies Siddhant Chaturvedi And Alia Bhatt Team Up For Thrilling New Project Post Gully Boy
- Education SCCL Recruitment 2024; Application process, Selection criteria and more
- Automobiles Mahindra 3XO SUV Latest Teaser Reveals Connected Car Tech: All Details Here
- Lifestyle World's First Miss AI Pageant Announced, Know All About The Rise Of AI Beauty
- Travel From Coconut Breaking on Head to Men Dressing as Women: 12 Unique Indian Rituals Explored
Attractive Smartphone icons Enhance User Performance
Icons on smartphones or computers that are eye-catching and aesthetically appealing help enhance user performance, British researchers have shown.
An eye-catching and appealing graphic on a mobile phone or website helps people perform tasks quicker and more easily as the job gets more demanding, it added. "Savings of even a few milliseconds at a time all add up when one is performing multi-step interactions on a website or a mobile phone," said British researchers Irene Reppa of Swansea University and Sine McDougall of Bournemouth University in Britain.
This might make people avoid some interfaces, such as certain websites or phones, in favour of those that maximise efficient performance, they added. The duo used computer icons in the study because these visuals are well-defined stimuli and part of modern life.
Recommended: Top 10 Budget Smartphones under 10K With Maximum Battery Backup
In a search-and-localisation task, participants first memorised a target icon and then searched for it among an array of nine icons. This assignment was designed to reflect the kind of task people perform when interacting with modern electronics. This includes finding and selecting icons representing tasks to be carried out from among a number of distracting symbols.
Simple and familiar icons were the easiest to find, but when the task got harder, aesthetically appealing icons provided a performance boost that was not found for less-appealing visuals. "Appealing icons are not only pleasant to use but also speed up people's ability to solve multi-step problems with visuals when using websites or mobile phones," the duo noticed.
Designers can take a few pointers from the results by developing icons which are visually simple, concrete and familiar. The results were published in Springer's journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Source: IANS
-
99,999
-
1,29,999
-
69,999
-
41,999
-
64,999
-
99,999
-
29,999
-
63,999
-
39,999
-
1,56,900
-
79,900
-
1,39,900
-
1,29,900
-
65,900
-
1,56,900
-
1,30,990
-
76,990
-
16,499
-
30,700
-
12,999
-
11,999
-
3,999
-
2,500
-
3,599
-
8,893
-
13,999
-
32,999
-
9,990
-
25,377
-
23,490