| Abstract |
| Personal media became generalized as participation and sharing have been emphasized in the age of Web 2.0. In order to visualize the personal media, various interface design elements are required. Layout design is studying how to arrange these interface elements on a display. For interface design, it is important to make its contents predictable and look logical. The current study aims to examine personal media in Korea focusing on interface design and layout. In connection with the above purpose, the study investigated into interface of web content and elements of layout, and analyzed a successful case model through a preference survey for domestic personal media. Contents of the most preferred domestic personal media is divided into personal contents tendencies and information contents tendencies, and its visual arrangement of interface was designed to contain these contents tendencies. Provision of layout template can be interpreted as a tool for this function. On the contrary, new personal media providing high degree of freedom in interface design to users to contain various contents tendencies are not producing good results in spite of their large number of existing members. Perhaps, this is because they failed to recognize limitation of expression of personal media that both producers and directors are individuals. Accordingly, it is the researcher`s position that provision of design for expressing various contents tendencies should be excluded while emphasizing pursuing identity. That is, a mistake providing too high degree of freedom in design should not be made at the time of interface design because personal media has limitation in which individuals are producers and the main bodies of expression. Also limited layout template considering convenience from general users` viewpoint should be provided. Like this, personal media should have distinctness emphasizing contents tendency to be pursued and a precondition of interface whose aura can be clearly recognized. The researcher also suggests that personal media should design and develop layout template taking into account limitation of expression of general users in order to be chosen by users consistently. |
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| Key Words |
| 1인 미디어, 인터페이스, 레이아웃 템플릿, Personal media, Interface, Layout template |
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