Factors influencing interface design skills

Abstract

This study aims to reveal several factors that affect student's interface designing skills. There are some variables that influence student's competencies encompassing motivation and prior knowledge, which determine the success of maximizing student's cognitive and interface designing skills. This study used quantitative research approach with 39 total university students. The obtained data were analyzed using Path Analysis that measured cause-effect phenomena occurred in a multiple regression. In accordance with the results of SPSS Amos, the value of Chi-Square was 0.236, Df = 1 with p = 0.627. As the p value was more than 0.05, so that the analysis model result was not significantly different from the data. The estimation value between the values of prior knowledge and interface designing skills was very strong (β = 0.912). This indicated that there is a significant influence of prior knowledge on interface designing skills, whereas, there was a weak relationship between other variables. Therefore, the analysis model was precise to portray the relationships between variables and the variable of prior knowledge became the most influential factor on student's interface designing skills.