Visual aesthetics had always referred to the beauty or pleasant appearance of a thing. Being a visual gadget that has some visual properties in its operation, the smartphone has caught the interest of visual research to probe into the attractive tendencies of its Graphical User Interface, and design layout. The study therefore examined the perception judgement of the visual aesthetic features of smartphones among the students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, paying attention to demographic differences in visual aesthetic judgement among students in the study domain. Sample size of 380 was taken as sample from 27,000 students. Systematic random sampling was used, Likert Scale was used to rate users’ perception of the visual aesthetics of their smartphones and the result was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The result showed greater percentages of the demographic variables showing a significant relationship with visual aesthetics perception among the respondents; while twelve (12) cases show large effect, only six (6) cases show exceptions with no significant effect relationship. This creates an inference that smartphone visual aesthetics presents an inspirational platform for its desired and continued use among students of higher institutions.
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