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Web site usability: a designer's guide

 Por Jared M. Spool

Web site usability:

a designer's guide
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Morgan Kaufmann, 1999 - 157 páginas

Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide is a report that every person involved in Web design, commerce, or online marketing will want to have. This book is, undoubtedly, the most comprehensive data demonstrating how Web sites actually work when users need specific answers. Researched and compiled by User Interface Engineering, the results are written in an easy to understand style, illustrating the need to make Web sites useful, not complicated.

* Based on an extensive study of actual users -- not theory, not graphic design principles, and not new tricks to make a "cool" Web sites
* Demonstrates how people actually navigate and extract information on Web sites
* Offers guidance for evaluating and improving the usability of Web sites

  

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Massive overgeneralization based on limited observations

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Excellent debunking of common web UI design myths

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WhiteSpace and Text Density
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WhiteSpace and Skimming
76
Scrolling and the Fold
77
Rules as a Stopping Place
78
Button Gravity
79
U 7 Graphic Design on the Web
83
The Role of Graphic Design
84
Link Color
85
Download Time
86
To Wait or Not to Wait
87
Animation and Movement
89
Movement in Ads
90
u 8 User Preference
93
Success and User Likes
94
Success and User Dislikes
95
Site Scrapbook
97
Edmunds
99
10 Hewlett Packard
103
11 WebSaver
109
Travelocity
113
1 Inc
119
14 Cnet
123
15 Fidelity
127
16 Disney
135
U 17 How We Tested Web Sites
143
Types of Questions
144
3 Comparison of Fact Questions
145
4 Comparison of Judgment Questions
146
Usability Testing Methodology
147
Data Collection
148
Calculating the Site Ratings
150
PostTest Questionnaire Results
151
How Good Is Good Enough?
153
User Interface Engineering
155
Additional Resources
156
UlEtips Email Publication
157
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Página i - THE MORGAN KAUFMANN SERIES IN INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES Series Editors: Stuart Card Xerox PARC Jonathan Grudin Microsoft Jakob Nielsen Nielsen Norman Group Tim Skelly Design Happy...
Página ii - ... for Kids: Exploring New Technologies for Learning Edited by Allison Druin and James Hendler Information Appliances and Beyond: Interaction Design for Consumer Products Edited by Eric Bergman Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think Written and edited by Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman The Design of Children's Technology Edited by Allison Druin Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide Jared M.
Página 71 - Rates text on a 100-point scale; the higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. For most standard documents, aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70.
Página 130 - ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES bonds or notes backed by loan paper or accounts receivable originated by banks, credit card companies, or other providers of credit and often "enhanced" by a bank LETTER OF CREDIT or by insurance coverage provided by an institution other than the issuer.
Página 4 - Because ofthis, we focused our study on how successful sites are at providing people with information so they can make decisions. The more a site helps people find the Information they are looking for, the more usable it is.
Página 72 - PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR LEGAL RESTRICTIONS AND TERMS OF USE APPLICABLE TO THIS SITE. USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE TERMS OF USE.
Página 14 - We don't yet know how to design for finding information. We don't know how to design for comparisons so that users can find the best house, car, or job — things the press tells us the web excels at. We don't know how to effectively use multiple media like graphics, animation, interactive applets, and text to produce the best results.
Página 89 - Users find this animation uniformly irritating. In fact, some users were so distracted by it that they could not even read the other text on the screen.
Página 10 - ... problems identified during the heuristic evaluation involved menu names. Many of the students found the names confusing or unclear. The results of the usability test revealed similar problems, as some of the students were unsure where to look for information because the link titles were not descriptive. The better users could predict where a link would lead, the more successful they were in finding information (Spool, 1999).
Página 76 - Also, looking at text on a web page is different from looking at text in a newspaper, for example. In a newspaper, the reader can see the whole page at once. This is not true for web sites, which are viewed through the window of a browser. The reader is forced to construct the page in his or her head. Scrolling and "the Fold...

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