Graphic Design and Button Placement for Mobile Map Applications

ABSTRACT

The following paper is an analysis of user preferences for the placement of buttons on a mobile map application. The authors focused on six public web mapping services, analysing them in terms of the graphical diversity of their buttons. What made the study innovative was the comparison of subjective user preferences regarding buttons placement with the layout of public web mapping services. The obtained results led to a conclusion that user preferences differ from the solutions applied on web mapping services. Adjusting the placement of buttons to fit those preferences would be a way of addressing the practical needs of people who use mobile maps application.

KEYWORDS:

• Graphical design
• buttons
• mobile map application
• web mapping service
• GUI

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributor

Tymoteusz Horbiński is a PhD student at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland in the Department of Cartography and Geomatics. He finished his Master's degree in the field of Geography with specialization in Cartography and Teledetection. He is a specialist in web mapping with emphasis on designing GUI according to the user's preferences.