A Review on Cultural Design Elements for Mobile Applications User Interface

Abstract

This study examined the use of cultural design elements in the existing design guidelines for mobile applications. Cultural design elements are used to include cultural values in the development of mobile applications. This research reviews existing design guidelines to identify cultural design elements’ practicality in mobile applications. This study conducts a literature review (PRISMA), including identification, screening, and eligibility. The keywords “Application”, “Design Guidelines”, and “User Interface” were searched on ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, and Scopus between 2017 and 2021, including 2022, with 281 articles before filtering and three articles selected after filtering. This review shows that cultural design elements in the mobile application played an essential role in getting a high usability rate for users. However, cultural design elements are still less used in the development of mobile applications. As a result, future research will focus on developing guidelines for mobile applications with cultural design elements appropriate for today’s technological era in a local context.