Motivate
Design your site to meet specific user needs and goals. Use motivators to draw different user “personae” into specific parts of your site.
User task flow
Who are your users? What are their tasks and online environment? For a site to be usable, page flow must match workflow.
Architecture – it’s 80% of usability
Build an efficient navigational structure. [...]
Archive for July, 2008
10 Usability Principles to guide you through the Web Design
Posted in Usability, user exprience, tagged Usability, Usability Principles, Web Design on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is User-Centered Design?
Posted in Usability, user exprience, tagged UCD, User-Centered Design on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
User-centered design (UCD) is an approach to design that grounds the process in information about the people who will use the product. UCD processes focus on users through the planning, design and development of a product.
An International Standard
There is an international standard that is the basis for many UCD methodologies. This standard (ISO 13407: Human-centred [...]
Communication design
Posted in Communication design, tagged Communication design, design on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media intermission such as printed, crafted, electronic media or presentations communicate with people. A communication design approach is not only concerned with developing the message aside from the aesthetics in media, but also with creating new media channels to ensure [...]
Web Accessibility
Posted in Usability, user exprience, tagged Usability, user exprience on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web.
More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging.
Web accessibility encompasses all disabilities that [...]
Five steps to a better design portfolio
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged design portfolio, e portfolio, portfolio on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
you’re looking for work as a designer, the old cliche is true: a picture is worth a thousand words. That is, your portfolio is your most important calling card.
I’ve been involved in hiring all sorts of designers – freelance, contract, full-time, in all sorts of disciplines – visual, interaction, illustration, print. Through this process, I’ve [...]
Card sorting
Posted in Usability, user exprience, tagged Card sorting on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Card sorting is a technique that many information architects (and related professionals.) use as an input to the structure of a site or product. With so many of us using the technique, why would we need to write an article on it?
While card sorting is described in a few texts and a number of sites, [...]
Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design
Posted in Interface Design, Uncategorized, tagged Interface Design on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design
As a result of Interface Design Studies, Ben Shneiderman proposed a collection of principles that are derived heuristically from experience and applicable in most interactive systems. These principles are common for user interface design, and as such also for web design.
Strive for consistency.
Enable frequent users to use shortcuts.
Offer informative feedback.
Design [...]
