Developing a Penang Cultural Tourism Website Prototype: A User-Centred Design Approach

Most Malaysian tourism website designs are text-heavy. They deliver information but reflect little regard for usability. Malaysian web designers and developers are unaware of the importance of user-centred web designs necessary in order to promote cultural tourism. This paper details the development...

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Main Author: Goh, Chu Hiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Seni 2008
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description Most Malaysian tourism website designs are text-heavy. They deliver information but reflect little regard for usability. Malaysian web designers and developers are unaware of the importance of user-centred web designs necessary in order to promote cultural tourism. This paper details the development of a Penang cultural tourism website prototype that employs a user-centred design approach. The website aims to disseminate information about the multicultural traditions of Penang, which include the performing arts, crafts and festivals. In the use of personas, this article seeks to examine the effectiveness and functionality of web pages and subsequently develop a Penang cultural tourism website prototype.
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spelling usm-266242017-05-19T02:32:11Z http://eprints.usm.my/26624/ Developing a Penang Cultural Tourism Website Prototype: A User-Centred Design Approach Goh, Chu Hiang NX Arts in general QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science Most Malaysian tourism website designs are text-heavy. They deliver information but reflect little regard for usability. Malaysian web designers and developers are unaware of the importance of user-centred web designs necessary in order to promote cultural tourism. This paper details the development of a Penang cultural tourism website prototype that employs a user-centred design approach. The website aims to disseminate information about the multicultural traditions of Penang, which include the performing arts, crafts and festivals. In the use of personas, this article seeks to examine the effectiveness and functionality of web pages and subsequently develop a Penang cultural tourism website prototype. Pusat Pengajian Seni 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://eprints.usm.my/26624/1/GOHCH_91_109_gohchNEW.pdf Goh, Chu Hiang (2008) Developing a Penang Cultural Tourism Website Prototype: A User-Centred Design Approach. Wacana Seni : Journal of Arts Discourse, 7. pp. 91-109. ISSN 2180-4311 http://wacanaseni.usm.my/
spellingShingle NX Arts in general
QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
Goh, Chu Hiang
Developing a Penang Cultural Tourism Website Prototype: A User-Centred Design Approach
title Developing a Penang Cultural Tourism Website Prototype: A User-Centred Design Approach
title_full Developing a Penang Cultural Tourism Website Prototype: A User-Centred Design Approach
title_fullStr Developing a Penang Cultural Tourism Website Prototype: A User-Centred Design Approach
title_full_unstemmed Developing a Penang Cultural Tourism Website Prototype: A User-Centred Design Approach
title_short Developing a Penang Cultural Tourism Website Prototype: A User-Centred Design Approach
title_sort developing a penang cultural tourism website prototype: a user-centred design approach
topic NX Arts in general
QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
url http://eprints.usm.my/26624/
http://eprints.usm.my/26624/
http://eprints.usm.my/26624/1/GOHCH_91_109_gohchNEW.pdf