Minimalist Design Verification based on Expert Reviews
Keywords:
Entrepreneurs, Minimalist Principles, Web Design, Website,Abstract
Business is the field that needs people to understand the related information in simple way in order for them to digest and get engage with the business. Minimalist is the concept to deliver information in the simplest but aesthetically pleasing way. The minimalist website is really important for entrepreneurs in order to attract people to visit their websites for purchasing goods or obtaining services. Websites’ interfaces that are hard to explore due to its complex designs could decrease the accessibility of the websites. Consequently, users will stop visiting the website and cause a loss of profit to the entrepreneurs. Hence, to address this issue, the current study aims to design entrepreneur’s website interfaces that apply the minimalist principles in order to produce a minimalist entrepreneur’s website. A number of studies have found nine minimalist principles. However, based on the reviewed literatures in the minimalist design domain, there were three (3) minimalist principles that are less employed in the minimalist design studies. Those three design principles are getting started fast (Principle 1), exploiting prior knowledge (Principle 4), and reasoning and improving (Principle 9). Thus, the current study only focuses on these three minimalist principles. This study consists of two phases. This paper emphasizes on the first phase of the current study which is to verify the minimalist design based on the expert reviews. This study adopts the quantitative method, which uses a survey to collect the related data. 10 designs that applied those three (3) minimalist principles were given to the experts. They chose the minimalist design based on the certain criteria such as the design achieving the level of users to be able to start fast in exploring the website information, the design is exploiting the current design guidelines such as Gestalt law in well applied, and the last one is each of the website design interface has their own reasoning and improvising on the locating the elements of the interface. As a result, form the expert reviews, the current study found that there are seven (7) designs which are able to be considered as a minimalist website design, namely Designs 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. These seven (7) designs will be applied as interfaces in the entrepreneur’s website for further investigation in Phase 2 of this study.Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT
The manuscript is herewith submitted for publication in the Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering (JTEC). It has not been published before, and it is not under consideration for publication in any other journals. It contains no material that is scandalous, obscene, libelous or otherwise contrary to law. When the manuscript is accepted for publication, I, as the author, hereby agree to transfer to JTEC, all rights including those pertaining to electronic forms and transmissions, under existing copyright laws, except for the following, which the author(s) specifically retain(s):
- All proprietary right other than copyright, such as patent rights
- The right to make further copies of all or part of the published article for my use in classroom teaching
- The right to reuse all or part of this manuscript in a compilation of my own works or in a textbook of which I am the author; and
- The right to make copies of the published work for internal distribution within the institution that employs me
I agree that copies made under these circumstances will continue to carry the copyright notice that appears in the original published work. I agree to inform my co-authors, if any, of the above terms. I certify that I have obtained written permission for the use of text, tables, and/or illustrations from any copyrighted source(s), and I agree to supply such written permission(s) to JTEC upon request.
