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Web Design Lab
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The lab explores information design and usability on the web.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring web expression and usability
In the field of web design, Assistant Professor Kiriko Toh studies forms of information design and communication on the web.
The lab explores how to structure content to take advantage of the characteristics of the web, visual design that improves usability while clearly expressing a distinctive identity, and the potential of GUI design from a UX perspective.
The lab also studies ways to use database-driven websites and their development as marketing tools.
The lab has also researched the impressions that fonts give and their readability.
Key terms
- UX
- Short for user experience. The overall experience a user has when using a product or service.
- GUI
- Short for graphical user interface. A system in which users operate a device through on-screen graphics such as pictures, diagrams, and buttons.
- Universal design font
- A typeface designed with care so that it is easy to see and read for as many people as possible.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies forms of information design and communication on the web. It explores how to structure content to take advantage of the characteristics of the web, visual design that improves usability, and the potential of GUI design from a UX perspective.
*Illustrative imageWeb expression and UX design
The lab explores how to structure content to take advantage of the characteristics of the web, and visual design that improves usability while expressing a distinctive identity. It also studies ways to use database-driven websites and their development as marketing tools.
Font impressions and readability
The lab has investigated how general users perceive differences in font shapes and the impressions they give, and has examined how these relate to measured values of shape features. It has also worked on evaluating the beauty and readability of universal design fonts.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorKiriko Toh
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Project User Experience Testing ( )” Samuel Mann from Dunedin, New Zealand / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Web expression and UX design: “Responsive design - Commons Android app” User:tfinc / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Web Design Lab): “User Experience (UX) Design Word Cloud” Madhav-Malhotra-003 / CC0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Design Engineering Lab): “Maker Space Orientation ( )” U.S. Embassy Dhaka / Public domain (cropped)
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