Semiotics and Web Interface Design

ISBN-13: 9783844302615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 168 str.

Muhammad Nazrul Islam

Opis

The growth of technological innovations, internet developments, and their (web) applications has raised a definite issue on retaining the web interface quite understandable, and a need is also being felt on developing suitable and coherent guidelines for designing interface to swell the user interpretability of web signs. These design principles are semiotics by nature since semiotics is the science of signs, that is, of meanings representations. For this, new and important perspectives for interface design would be discovered by Semiotic Analysis on interface signs. Therefore, this book mainly focuses on the valuable insights that semiotic analysis could offer to present the fundamental concepts to create understandable signs. The fundamental role of this book is to provide the semiotics background to the web designers with presenting the entire semiotics explanations for a particular web domain and the Semiotics design guidelines that will help them to designing the web interface signs comprehensible and usable to work with!

O autorze

Muhammad Nazrul Islam received B.Sc. in Computer Sci. & IT and M.Sc. in Computer Eng. degree from Islamic University of Tech. and Polytechnic of Milan respectively. He has been a faculty member in the dept. of CSE of Khulna University of Eng. & Tech. since 2003. He is currently on study leave and doing Ph.D. at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.