Leonardo da Vinci may have created beautiful paintings, but he wouldn’t have been much of a web designer. That’s the implication of a study into how the design of a website affects how easy it is to use.
The artist behind the Mona Lisa believed that the “golden ratio” – approximately 1.618 – could give designs a fundamental beauty.
However, a study by Paul van Schaik at the University of Teesside, UK, has found that the golden ratio does not benefit all designs. Websites with golden proportions can be harder to extract information from.
Van Schaik put 98 students into five groups…
