In the commercial websites disregard for the users can cause economic loss. Many of the techniques are based on engaging users in all stages of design. This is not designed for users to design, but with users. This is nothing new: the visual design has a decisive role in the perception of quality of a website. The visual and aesthetic impact on the confidence and credibility of a website. For any company or institution, the web design of your website is a key piece of its institutional identity. But the design of a Web site only from our visual training… Read More
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Usability: Nutzerfreundliches Web-Design
June 16th, 2010 
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Das Internet existiert nicht zum Selbstzweck seiner Macher. Der Nutzer steht im Mittelpunkt. Er verlangt Fakten, Unterhaltung, Ablenkung, Bestellmöglichkeit – genau das, was er will, und dies so schnell wie möglich. Kundengewinnung und Kundenbindung kann daher nur gelingen, wenn die Nutzerfreundlichkeit bei der Entwicklung einer Website im Mittelpunkt steht. Usability – das Testen der Nutzerfreundlichkeit – ist die Grundlage dafür. In diesem Buch wird das Thema Usability in seinen verschiedenen Aspekten systematisch vorgestellt, sowohl wissenschaftlich als auch praxisrelevant analysiert und durch Fallstudien veranschaulicht. Der inhaltliche Bogen reicht von der strategischen Konzeption einer Usability-orientierten… Read More
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
May 23rd, 2010 Admin 
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The book begins with a briefing on Jakob’s web usability principles, themselves culled from years of research. The 50 sites fall under such categories as Fortune 500 Sites, Highest-Traffic Sites, and E-Commerce Sites. The content is simply presented: Four book pages are devoted to each homepage. The first page is a clean screenshot of the site’s homepage (for readers to make their own, unbiased judgments), followed by a page that explains the site’s purpose and summarizes its success–or failure–at usabilty. The third and fourth pages are devoted to crtiques, where Jakob and Marie… Read More
Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
May 15th, 2010 Admin 
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Although recent findings show the public increasingly interacting with government Web sites, a common problem is that people can’t find what they’re looking for. In other words, the sites lack usability. The Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines aid in correcting this problem by providing the latest Web design guidance from the research and other forms of evidence. This unique publication has been updated from its earlier version to include over 40 new or updated research guidelines, bringing the total to 209. Primary audiences for the book are: Web managers, designers, and all
Web Accessibility, Usability And Basic Seo Tips
May 2nd, 2010 Admin What is Accessibility? Web accessibility put simply means that people with disabilities can use the Web. Therefore people with disabilities can understand, navigate their way around, and interact with the Web. For example, individuals with a visual impairment can interpret websites through the use of items such as screen readers and text only browsers. Sites that are web accessible can also function well on mobile phones and PDAs as well as PCs. With the use of CSS web developers can set the type size enabling users to change the font size when looking at a web page by selecting whether… Read More
Usability Features of Web 2.0 for Websites
April 26th, 2010 Admin The concept of web 2.0 has seen the upswing in last few years, one of its unique features is that website content is produced dynamically by the users itself. It holds true especially for social bookmarking websites. Many famous social networking sites are example of sites using web 2.0. The websites that use web 2.0 faces chain reaction with different traffic methods helping in raising your search engine rank. Experts dealing with web 2.0 always advice to bring in many links from other web 2.0 websites for information collection purpose. Even if your website is not web 2.0 type, you… Read More
Designing Web Usability
April 22nd, 2010 Admin 
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Users experience the usability of a web site before they have committed to using it and before making any purchase decisions. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Designing Web Usability is the definitive guide to usability from Jakob Nielsen, the world’s leading authority. Over 250,000 Internet professionals around the world have turned to this landmark book, in which Nielsen shares the full weight of his wisdom and… Read More
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
April 19th, 2010 Admin 
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Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it’s hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn’t read Steve Krug’s “instant classic” on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. Don’t be surprised if it completely changes the way… Read More
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5 Comments »Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability
April 1st, 2010 Admin 
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Forms are everywhere on the web – for registration and communicating, for commerce and government. Good forms make for happier customers, better data, and reduced support costs. Bad forms fill your organization’s databases with inaccuracies and duplicates and can cause loss of potential consumers.
Designing good forms is trickier than people think. Jarrett and Gaffney come to the rescue with Designing Forms that Work, clearly explaining exactly how to design great forms for the web. Liberally illustrated with full-color… Read More
Get Your Small Business Outshine Big Competitors With Usability Centric Ecommerce Web Design
March 7th, 2010 Admin The world of web offers global platform to distribute your business and aim for global reach. Gone are the days, when your brick and mortar shop would hardly cross the local geographical boundary and could aspire to take off the brand to higher loft of national recognition until or unless you spend hefty in expensive advertising and marketing through TV or print media. And the scenario is changing at the lightening speed with the advent of Internet media. Onset of this World Wide Web media has led modern business owners to touch virtual advertising strategies. And the cornerstone of an… Read More
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