Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
A fascinating, highly surprising study of the way people actually look for information at a Website.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
Part I: Research Results
Chapter List
- Chapter 1: Web Site Usability: The Big Picture
- Chapter 2: Getting Around: Navigation
- Chapter 3: Getting Around: Links
- Chapter 4: Within-Site Searching
- Chapter 5: The Difficulty of Comparisons
- Chapter 6: Readability and Page Layout
- Chapter 7: Graphic Design on the Web
- Chapter 8: User Preference
Everyone has opinions about what makes a good web site. Web site navigation, links, graphic design, page layout, and user satisfaction have all been discussed in the popular press ad nauseam.
Our research, however, provides actual data not opinions about what makes web sites usable. You may be surprised at some of our findings. We certainly were!
The chapters in Part 1 present the most interesting findings from our research. We don't have all the answers about how to design a usable web site, but we're starting to learn where some of the problems with current web site design lie.
As an industry, we have a long way to go.
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