A Systematic Literature Review of Visual Design Metrics for Graphical User Interfaces

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Supervisors

Vanderdonckt, Jean

Faculty

Louvain School of Management

Degree label

Master [60] en sciences de gestion

Abstract

Visual design of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) aims to contribute to their usability by manipulating their visual components, such as their widgets, menus, contents and their layout by relying on a variety of techniques borrowed from general visual design and aesthetic properties. Therefore, a significant portion of GUI evaluation, but not the only one, concerns the visual aspects of GUIs. Many metrics attempts to characterize, express, and measure quality properties of the visual design of graphical user interfaces, but with different names, definitions, formulas, interpretations and empirical evidences. This thesis performs a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) for identifying and characterizing visual design metrics for graphical user interfaces on six scientific digital libraries, augmented by a snowballing procedure. We will identify a corpus of metrics that are systematically analyzed. Each identified metric will be described and accompanied by one or more formulas, the different formulas and metrics will be compared and their analysis will suggest some further consideration on how to apply and research further metrics in this area.