Arts and Design Studies www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-6061 (Paper) ISSN 2225-059X (Online) Vol.57, 2017 16 Evaluation of Interactive Journalistic Design in the Egyptian Daily Online Newspapers Sameh Mostafa Hassaan Department of printing publishing and packaging, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University Cairo, Egypt Abstract Nowadays, the Interactive Journalistic design in the Egyptian daily online newspapers has become as a general reality. The Egyptian online newspapers utilize different types of Interactive features, but not on a regular basis. This study examined top three of local online newspapers, according to top Alexa rank and more visitor's number, also according to the specific fields of interested readers, like one that specialized in breaking news, other that are focused on the reports and articles, and finally that interested to present specific topics such as sports, aims through characterizing front pages of them, and the types of Interactive Journalistic design used, regardless the content elements.This paper shows that they still lag behind in the use of data visualization and do not utilize all types of interactive features. They mainly outsource services for data visualization packages or illustration-based graphics. They do not have separate or specialized departments for digital data visualization. They utilize of interactive features such as mouse-over, clicking on, hyperlinks, static and dynamic visualization only as images without any used the modern globally data visualization styles, and sharing to social medias, but do not combine data visualization with news stories. Type-based graphics are more frequently used than charts and illustration-based graphics. also, it can be seen data visualization as separately to the text and not an essential part of the journalism content. Keywords: Information design, data visualization, online newspapers, interactive feature. 1. Introduction Readers can be considered as aimed main clients of online newspapers. not only when the topic catches their attention but also combined with the layout and journalistic design style. perhaps that is being why journalistic designers try to explore current modern styles, which attract the audience to online newspapers. Nowadays, there are most of 110 of Egyptian newspapers edited through the internet as online newspapers (Alexa rank, 2107). Naturally, there are differences of journalistic design between the traditional printed newspapers and others that edited through the internet (Trench, and Quinn, 2003). The aim of journalistic design and interactive features of any online newspapers will get someone to stop and look at the topic by navigating or browsing. 1.1. Research problem: Weak level of interactive journalistic design of Egyptian online newspapers, comparing to current latest trends. 1.2. The Research Aims: The evaluation of Egyptian online newspapers by measuring to what degree of existence the interactive features of them as the main aim of this research paper according to the data visualizations and journalistic design in the current situation. 1.3. Research Methodology: The research was achieved by analysis motivated an interpretive approach methodology, the aim was to evaluate the Egyptian online newspapers according to interactive journalistic design. Despite widespread use interactive journalistic design types in the Egyptian online newspapers and the growing competition, it is unclear how they use information graphics in presenting their news and information, or whether they provide specific or varied types of interactive features. Drawing on the theoretical survey and field study of online newspapers, the following inquiries were studied to test the current used interactive journalistic design in Egyptian online newspapers. - What are the most used types of interactive journalistic design in the Egyptian online newspapers and main properties of them? - What are the main characteristics of the Egyptian online newspapers regarding used types of interactive features? 1.4. Study Delimitations: 1.4.1. Spatial border: Ten of Egyptian online newspapers, by the Arabic language. 1.4.2. Temporal border: July 2016 – July 2017 as a current time of implementing this research paper. 1.4.3. Substantive border: it is limited to the research study on Egyptian online newspapers to evaluate the