A Study on Usability of Blog User Interface design

• Main Authors: Yen-Jen Wang, 王衍仁
• Other Authors: Fong-Ming Shyu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jmhdp9

碩士 === 臺中技術學院 === 多媒體設計系碩士班 === 97 === More and more people got information they need through used Internet. So, website become a necessary way which the user used to get the information. Blog, at now, become more and more popular, so that there are more and more research exampled by Blogs. Blogs belong to website, and the web interface is a popular issue, but there is little study which discusses the interface of Blogs. So, we focus on the interface of Blogs, and use usability evaluation to discuss the factors what would affect to suffers, and design a user interface with usability. In this paper, we focus on the effects of blog interface to surfers, there are two major phases that previous test and last test in this paper :(1) Using Heuristic Evaluation to explore the factors in blog interface which would affect to blog visitors and used System Usability Scale to prove which factors would affect to blog visitors; (2) Based on the result of previous test and web user interface design guideline, we used Wordpress to be platform and built two blog templates, and used QUIS questionnaires to compare with the templates which we proposed and the other blog template which provide by a blog service. After statistical analysis, we have four results below :(1) According to the result of heuristic evaluation, surfers don’t have lots views to blog’s templates, but they think the content block of blogs is the major factor.(2) According to the data of previous test, we have the best template and group.(3) After analysis five quarters of QUIS questionnaires, we known the template which with more usability.(4)Focus on the five quarters of QUIS questionnaires, we got significant conclusion of this study. This study used usability evaluation and web interface design guideline to proposed a blog interface with usability, we wish that we could give an available suggestion to bloggers and blog services so that it could help blog visitors to get the information they want.