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The Impact of Culture on the Design of Arabic Websites
Aaron Marcus,Sundus Hamoodi +1 more
- pp 386-394
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Issues regarding the influence of culture on Arabic Websites and can an Arabian designer achieve what users in other cultures need and want are discussed.Abstract:
This paper discusses issues regarding the influence of culture on Arabic Websites. Arabic Websites from three countries serve as an initial sample for this study. Do the Websites of Arabian countries reflect their culture? How specifically? Do they share attitudes about design? Can an Arabian designer achieve what users in other cultures need and want? What are differences reflected in the differences between Arabic countries in the Eastern world and Western countries? This paper discusses these and other issues.read more
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Optimized web design in the Saudi culture
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Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
TL;DR: In this article, the differences in the way strategists and their followers think are discussed, and practical solutions for those in business to help solve conflict between different groups are proposed, with a focus on how to find common problems which demand cooperation for the solution of these problems.
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Crosscurrents: cultural dimensions and global Web user-interface design
Aaron Marcus,Emilie West Gould +1 more
TL;DR: The work of one theorist, Geert Hofstede, is introduced, and some of his cultural dimensions to Web user interfaces are applied, and how they might affect userinterface designs are considered.
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The impact of culture and gender on web sites: an empirical study
TL;DR: Analysis indicates that perception and satisfaction differences exist between the cultural clusters and gender groups within those cultures --- Asia, Europe, Latin & South America, and North America and that females within certain cultures have widely different preferences regarding web site attributes.
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Cultural Similarities and Differences in the Design of University Web sites
TL;DR: Computed correlations between Hofstede’s scores and frequency counts of interface elements were weaker than anticipated, but in most cases occurred in the hypothesized direction, suggesting that similarities and differences in Web site design can be brought out through Hofstedes' cultural model.