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Web Design Lab
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The lab explores information design and UX on the web.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring information design that makes the most of the web's characteristics
Assistant Professor Kiriko Toh (specializing in web design) studies information design and forms of communication on the web.
The lab explores how to structure content to take advantage of the web's characteristics, and how to create visual design that improves usability while expressing a strong identity.
Research also covers ways of using database-driven sites and their development as marketing tools.
The lab is also engaged in joint research on the impressions that fonts give.
Key terms
- UX
- Short for user experience. It refers to the overall experience users have while using a site or service.
- GUI
- Short for graphical user interface. It is the appearance and mechanism of operation in which users interact while looking at on-screen elements such as buttons and icons.
- Shape attributes (morphological attributes)
- Values obtained by measuring the shape characteristics of a font. They are used to examine the relationship with evaluations of the impression the font gives.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies information design and forms of communication on the web. Its subjects include content structure, visual design, GUI design from a UX perspective, and the impressions that fonts give.
Web Information Design and UX
The lab explores content structure that takes advantage of the web's characteristics, and visual design that improves usability while expressing identity. It also considers the possibilities of GUI design from a UX perspective.
*Illustrative imageFont Impressions and How Fonts Are Distinguished
As joint research, the lab investigates the differences in font shapes that ordinary users tell apart, and the impression each font gives. It also examines the relationship with shape attributes obtained through measurement.
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.
- Top image: “User Experience (UX) Design Word Cloud” Madhav-Malhotra-003 / CC0 (cropped)
- Font Impressions and How Fonts Are Distinguished: “Della Robbia font specimen” Esn12 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Web Design Lab): “Project User Experience Testing ( )” Samuel Mann from Dunedin, New Zealand / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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