The beauty of simplicity

Proceedings of the Conference on Universal Usability

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 85-90

  Karvonen, Kristiina ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Beautiful; Cross cultural HCI; Design quality; Pleasure; Trust; User interface design; Web usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

DESIGN QUALITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0034592952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/355460.355478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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