A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time. If the design works as well without a certain design element, kill it. — Jakob Nielsen, author and consultant on user interfaces
A good website should have at least the usability and [...]
Archive for the ‘Usability’ Category
Best Usability Quotations
Posted in Usability, user exprience, tagged Quotations, Usability on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Rapid Prototyping
Posted in Prototyping, Usability, user exprience, tagged effective communication, Prototyping on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A prototype is a model of something to be further developed. The higher the fidelity the more representative is the prototype. Rapid prototyping implies that there is a short time between conceiving an initial notion and modeling it in physical form and between successive iterations. A popular method is to use paper to create the [...]
User Experience Strategy
Posted in Usability, user exprience, tagged Strategy, User Experience, User Experience Strategy on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In recent years, user exprience process has become T-shaped, in part due to the gentle jabs of Peter Boersma, but mostly as a result of the fit between my expertise and the needs of my clients.
In the first phase, user research (the three circles) and work define a user experience strategy. This narrative expression provides a necessary [...]
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 »
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Usability in Website and Software Design
Posted in Usability, tagged Usability on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This blog provides information and resources for key issues related to usability in website and software design.
I believe that helping people do their work in an effective and enjoyable way should be the top priority in design because if a product is not usable, people will not use it.
What is Usability?
Usability usally reffers to software but [...]
