10 Usability Principles to guide you through the Web Design

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. [...]

Read Full Post »

What is User-Centered Design?

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Web Accessibility

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Card sorting

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, [...]

Read Full Post »