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- Title
Specific Mobile Web Usability Aspects Comparing to Web Usability.
- Authors
KOSTROMINS, Andrejs; BALTMANIS, Raivis
- Abstract
In the modern world Web and its services have become integral part of our society. Web serves a lot in many ways, for example, information provider, for doing business and work, for shopping and leisure etc. In the past years a huge amount of Web sites were developed for these purposes. Most of them serve well for users' needs; however, Web usability issue takes a very important part in the Web sites lifetime. Low level of Web sites usability makes users to waste their time, lose loyalty to those Web sites and demotivates users. This aspect caused massive research efforts among the scientists and researchers to point out the most important cornerstones of the Web usability. We live at technology era and it brings new challenges in the field of Web usability. The rush in people life forced appearance of the mobile phones that nowadays are the part of people life. Step by step simple mobile phones turned into smartphones, where in addition to making trivial phone calls, they are capable of performing a variety of other functions. One of these functions is ability to access the Internet, so the Web sites. At this point starts the new challenge for Web usability, because even powerful smartphones have several limitations: relatively small screen, tiny buttons, slow connection speed etc. In the article authors show importance of the mobile Web usability because of indisputable predominance of smartphones against PCs according to smartphones penetration analysis. The most common Web usability evaluation methods are summarized. The mobile Web usability literature analysis suggests additional usability tips for mobile Web sites.
- Subjects
WEB design; WEBSITE usability; WEB development; USER-centered system design; SMARTPHONES
- Publication
Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, 2014, Vol 2, Issue 3, p171
- ISSN
2255-8942
- Publication type
Article