References
Peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and W3C standards. DOIs were verified through Crossref, and claims were extracted from abstracts or specifications.
Publications with inaccessible abstracts are excluded because their claims cannot be checked. Sorted by publication year.
| Publication | Type | Published in | Principles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller (1968)Response Time in Man-Computer Conversational Transactions | Conference | Proceedings of the AFIPS Fall Joint Computer Conference | 2 |
| Hutchins et al. (1985)Direct Manipulation Interfaces | Journal | Human–Computer Interaction | 1 |
| Furnas (1986)Generalized Fisheye Views | Journal | ACM SIGCHI Bulletin | 1 |
| MacKenzie (1992)Fitts' Law as a Research and Design Tool in Human-Computer Interaction | Journal | Human–Computer Interaction | 1 |
| Chang & Ungar (1993)Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface | Conference | Proceedings of the 6th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '93) | 2 |
| Valdez & Mehrabian (1994)Effects of Color on Emotions | Journal | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2 |
| Shneiderman (1996)The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations | Conference | Proceedings 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages | 2 |
| Rensink et al. (1997)To See or Not to See: The Need for Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes | Journal | Psychological Science | 2 |
| Robertson et al. (1998)Data Mountain: Using Spatial Memory for Document Management | Conference | Proceedings of the 11th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '98) | 1 |
| Pook et al. (2000)Context and Interaction in Zoomable User Interfaces | Conference | Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2000) | 2 |
| Tractinsky et al. (2000)What Is Beautiful Is Usable | Journal | Interacting with Computers | 1 |
| Mayer & Chandler (2001)When Learning Is Just a Click Away: Does Simple User Interaction Foster Deeper Understanding of Multimedia Messages? | Journal | Journal of Educational Psychology | 1 |
| Dyson (2004)How Physical Text Layout Affects Reading from Screen | Journal | Behaviour & Information Technology | 1 |
| Galletta et al. (2004)Web Site Delays: How Tolerant Are Users? | Journal | Journal of the Association for Information Systems | 1 |
| Ou et al. (2004)A Study of Colour Emotion and Colour Preference. Part I: Colour Emotions for Single Colours | Journal | Color Research & Application | 1 |
| Klein & Bederson (2005)Benefits of Animated Scrolling | Conference | CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems | 2 |
| Baudisch et al. (2006)Phosphor: Explaining Transitions in the User Interface Using Afterglow Effects | Conference | Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '06) | 3 |
| Lindgaard et al. (2006)Attention Web Designers: You Have 50 Milliseconds to Make a Good First Impression! | Journal | Behaviour & Information Technology | 1 |
| Heer & Robertson (2007)Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics | Journal | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | 1 |
| Buchner & Baumgartner (2007)Text–Background Polarity Affects Performance Irrespective of Ambient Illumination and Colour Contrast | Journal | Ergonomics | 1 |
| Cockburn et al. (2009)A Review of Overview+Detail, Zooming, and Focus+Context Interfaces | Journal | ACM Computing Surveys | 2 |
| Huang & White (2010)Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web | Conference | Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia | 1 |
| Palmer & Schloss (2010)An Ecological Valence Theory of Human Color Preference | Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| Schloss & Palmer (2011)Aesthetic Response to Color Combinations: Preference, Harmony, and Similarity | Journal | Attention | 1 |
| Reinecke et al. (2013)Predicting Users' First Impressions of Website Aesthetics with a Quantification of Perceived Visual Complexity and Colorfulness | Conference | Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13) | 2 |
| Piepenbrock et al. (2013)Positive Display Polarity Is Advantageous for Both Younger and Older Adults | Journal | Ergonomics | 1 |
| Chevalier et al. (2014)The Not-so-Staggering Effect of Staggered Animated Transitions on Visual Tracking | Journal | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | 1 |
| Elliot & Maier (2014)Color Psychology: Effects of Perceiving Color on Psychological Functioning in Humans | Journal | Annual Review of Psychology | 1 |
| Rello et al. (2016)Make It Big! The Effect of Font Size and Line Spacing on Online Readability | Conference | Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | 1 |
| van der Bles et al. (2020)The Effects of Communicating Uncertainty on Public Trust in Facts and Numbers | Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 |
| Jonauskaite et al. (2020)Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity | Journal | Psychological Science | 1 |
| Perrig et al. (2023)Smartphone App Aesthetics Influence Users' Experience and Performance | Journal | Frontiers in Psychology | 1 |
| Zen et al. (2023)A Quality Model-based Approach for Measuring User Interface Aesthetics with Grace | Journal | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction | 1 |
| Perrig et al. (2024)Development and Validation of a Positive-Item Version of the Visual Aesthetics of Websites Inventory: The VisAWI-pos | Journal | International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | 0 |
| W3C (2024)Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 | Standard | W3C Recommendation | 5 |
| Nourian et al. (2025)Investigating the Intersection of Cultural Design Preferences and Web Accessibility Guidelines with Designers from the Global South | Conference | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25) | 1 |
| Silvennoinen et al. (2026)The Effect of Novelty and Typicality on Aesthetic Appeal of Websites | Journal | International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | 1 |