user interface design by applying theories of aesthetics - Theseus

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6 CONCLUSION
Aesthetics theories are widely adopted and accepted by human not only on
architectures, paintings and nature beauty, but also suitable and appears
excellence on website design.
People feel that, aesthetic website is more beautiful and easy to use, which shows
great satisfaction from users. Base on this study, it confirmed five aesthetic
principles, which are well adopted on Graphical User Interface and also achieved
good affections from users.
Golden section and dynamic symmetry used on website layout design contract
comfortable visual effect to human eyes. Gestalt laws used as the distribution and
position of website elements on webpages provides clean, tidy and well-organized
effect to users, they also feel easy to find information and accomplish a specific
task. Colour theories used in selecting the colours on website provides nice visual
effect and harmony to users.
Unlike another sample website, which have not applied any aesthetic rules. Users
feel difficult to find information and read the text from the content since the
combination of background and text colour are too similar to each other, that leads
low contrast and usability to the website. The distribution of elements on the
non-aesthetic website gives the user mess and unprofessional feeling and users
admit that they even do not want spent more time on the webpages.
All in all, aesthetics theories structured a good graphical user interface on website
design, and it shows easier and more clear guideline for user to find information
from it.