웹 사이트 유형에 따른 반응형 웹 사이트 디자인의 특성에 대한 연구

Abstract

The speedy advancement of the IT industry is developing the environment for devices that provide users with content and enhance its smart features. As various devices come with matching resolutions, we have witnessed the spread and distribution of a variety of devices including desktop PC, smartphones like the iPhone, smartpads, smart TVs, and tablets. Users, who have come to their own diverse-ranging smart devices, have come into contact with their desired contents, which are dismantling temporal and spatial restrictions. Also, such a change has increased users' interest in web accessibility and users have come to desire a consistent interface. In response to the demands, companies that provide content and related operators have come to pay attention to the technology for realizing a responsive web. In this study, I aim to come up with basic data, which can serve as guidelines for creating responsive websites in accordance with various purposes that those websites have. While working on earlier studies and a theoretical review to demonstrate the need for research and present a direction for it, I have seen which responsive pattern registers the highest level of usability at this point of time through an analysis of some domestic websites that embody responsive web design. Also, based on the design conditions of web interface, I have examined whether specific responsive patterns in different resolutions have visibility, intelligibility, user convenience, and esthetic quality that are considered through the changes in layout. The analysis of the types of response shows that the layout shifter was used the most frequently in the main page, while column drop and tiny tweaks were used the most frequently in subpages. Some websites were found to use two or more patterns. This suggests that a responsive pattern which uses one single pattern is not the correct answer, but that using mixed patterns could create a greater effect in visual impression on users and delivering information to them. Furthermore, I believe that these cases will define more other composite responsive patterns than the five responsive patterns found by Luke Wroblewski. Further studies will have to research and compare a variety of responsive websites, towards the time when responsive web design settles in the Korean web market. Research on user convenience and usability will have to advance through empirical analyses such as questionnaire-based statistics.