
Usability for the Web
Designing Web Sites that Work
- 496 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Every stage in the design of a new web site is an opportunity to meet or miss deadlines and budgetary goals. Every stage is an opportunity to boost or undercut the site's usability.Usability for the Web tells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on managing the project and incorporating usability principles from the project's inception. This systematic usability process for web design has been developed by the authors and proven again and again in their own successful businesses.A beacon in a sea of web design titles, this book treats web site usability as a preeminent, practical, and realizable business goal, not a buzzword or abstraction. The book is written for web designers and web project managers seeking a balance between usability goals and business concerns.- Examines the entire spectrum of usability issues, including architecture, navigation, graphical presentation, and page structure.- Explains clearly the steps relevant to incorporating usability into every stage of the web development process, from requirements to tasks analysis, prototyping and mockups, to user testing, revision, and even postlaunch evaluations.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Usability for the Web
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Forms
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I: PERVASIVE USABILITY
- PART II: REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS
- PART III: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
- PART IV: MOCKUPS AND PROTOTYPES
- PART V: PRODUCTION
- PART VI: LAUNCH
- PART VII: EVALUATION
- Appendix. Usability Inspection of www.whitehouse.gov
- References
- Index
- About the Authors