What is beautiful is usable

By Noam Tractinsky, Adi Katz, D. Ikar. Interacting with computers, 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

What is this evasive beast we call user satisfaction? (2003, background): “This is in line with at least one definition of aesthetics where beauty is nothing more than sensual attractiveness (Sparshott, 1963).”
Old wine in new bottles or novel challenges: a critical analysis of empirical studies of user experience (2011, background): “Such qualities concern for instance aesthetics [77] or self-actualization [20].”
The Behavioral Intervention Technology Model: An Integrated Conceptual and Technological Framework for eHealth and mHealth Interventions (2014, background): “Aesthetics can have a substantial impact on user acceptance and usability [22].”
Facets of visual aesthetics (2010, background): “Thus, it is possible that participants’ evaluation of divergent constructs was based on visual aesthetics or that visual aesthetics produced a strong halo effect (Tractinsky et al., 2000).”
Online Impulse Buying: Understanding the Interplay between Consumer Impulsiveness and Website Quality (2011, methodology): “Examples used in the IS literature that apply to these respective categories include security (Koufaris and Hampton-Sosa, 2004; Zhang et al., 2001), navigability (Palmer, 2002), and visual appeal (Tractinsky et al., 2000; Van der Heijden and Verhagen, 2004).”
Combining Brain–Computer Interfaces and Assistive Technologies: State-of-the-Art and Challenges (2010, background): “Nevertheless, [189] demonstrates that the perception of how usable a system is increases as visual aesthetics of the system increases, although its actual usability remains unchanged.”
The Interplay of Beauty, Goodness, and Usability in Interactive Products (2004, methodology): “In a prior study (Tractinsky, 1997), individuals were presented with 26 different ATM layouts, adapted from Kurosu and Kashimura (1995), 9 of which were used in Tractinsky et al. (2000).”
User experience: A concept without consensus? Exploring practitioners' perspectives through an international survey (2015, background): “This observation is quite unexpected considering the fact that UX research (Thüring & Mahlke, 2007; Tractinsky et al., 2000) has shown that the links between usability and UX seem not to comply with this assumption.”
Understanding, scoping and defining user experience: a survey approach (2009, background): “Third, the landscape of UX research is fragmented and complicated by diverse theoretical models with different foci such as pragmatism, emotion, affect, experience, value, pleasure, beauty, hedonic quality, etc. (e.g. [2] [3] [4] [5] [12] [17] [21]).”
Website attributes in urging online impulse purchase: An empirical investigation on consumer perceptions (2013, background): “Prior studies found that the feeling on whether an interface can be easily navigated is highly correlated with the perceived visual appeal of the interface [8,33,60,65].”
Aesthetics and credibility in web site design (2008, background): “Our findings are similar to those of Tractinsky et al. (2000) in that positive reactions followed exposure to interfaces with higher aesthetic treatment.”
Emotional design in multimedia learning. (2012, background): “In addition, users’ positive perceptions about learning in multimedia environments suggest that positive emotions were produced by the design of various multimedia elements, such as the visual design, design layout, color, and sound (Tractinsky et al., 2000; Wolfson & Case, 2000).”
The roles of habit and web site quality in e-commerce (2006, background): “Tractinsky, Katz, and Ikar (2000) found that perceived usefulness and perceived aesthetics of a system are related to each other.”