To affirm Warren's point, it's for another more practical reason:
Unlike Latin and Germanic languages, Chinese is rooted in hieroglyphic
characters. Typing in Chinese on an alphabet-based keyboard can be slow,
especially for middle-aged and older users. So, you will see that some
website user interfaces are extremely busy: text and image links
everywhere ... websites are designed for clicking, as opposed to searching.
From this article: http://bit.ly/n0LmlI
-Marc
On 10/5/2011 12:20 PM, Warren Chu wrote:
Any apparent lack of aesthetics in regards to Eastern communications
is most likely not due to lack of concern considering the importance
of aesthetics to Eastern culture on a whole.
I suspect the choice to focus on "flow/volume of information being
presented" is the same reason Google and Yahoo! generally lack of
"aesthetics" on their sites as well, it isn't important enough to
spend resources on in relations to the product they're "selling".
-
Warren
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Brandtley McMinn
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm not overly aware of any specific UX/UI design resources
regarding Eastern communications, but something I am aware of from
one of my professors is that they're not overly concerned with
aesthetics. Not to say good design isn't considered, but their
main focus is the flow/volume of information being presented,
which is why you get a bunch of modern day chinese websites
looking similar to the old geocities websites.
I'll be sure to keep an eye out for resources and post back here,
but hope this helps a bit.
Good luck Alex,
- Brandtley
On 10/5/2011 10:25 AM, Alex Jones wrote:
Howdy everyone, while I am very familiar with UX best practices
for the West, I'm now doing a deep dive into the same UX and UI
best practices for Chinese mobile apps. I understand some of the
broad strokes, but would like to find authoritative resources.
So, do you know of any recommendations that you can send my way,
beyond the standard Google results? Bonus points if the site is
in English, but if you know of a great resource that's only
available in Chinese, I would love to hear about it as well.
Thanks,
Alex
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