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If user-interface design seeks to encompass human-experience design, then computer-based communication and interaction designers need to keep Asian, and specifically Chinese users in mind. With approximately one-fifth of the world’s population, an economy that is growing quickly, a manufacturing system that exports a significant percentage of the goods imported into the world’s countries, China needs to be considered in revising concepts of user-interface and user-experience design.
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Marcus, A. (2015). User-Interface Design and China: A Great Leap Forward. In: HCI and User-Experience Design. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6744-0_6
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