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    Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work
    Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work
    Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work
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    Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work

    By Tom Brinck, Darren Gergle and Scott D. Wood

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    Every stage in the design of a new web site is an opportunity to meet or miss deadlines and budgetary goals. Every stage is an opportunity to boost or undercut the site's usability.Usability for the Web tells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on managing the project and incorporating usability principles from the project's inception. This systematic usability process for web design has been developed by the authors and proven again and again in their own successful businesses.

    A beacon in a sea of web design titles, this book treats web site usability as a preeminent, practical, and realizable business goal, not a buzzword or abstraction. The book is written for web designers and web project managers seeking a balance between usability goals and business concerns.

    • Examines the entire spectrum of usability issues, including architecture, navigation, graphical presentation, and page structure.
    • Explains clearly the steps relevant to incorporating usability into every stage of the web development process, from requirements to tasks analysis, prototyping and mockups, to user testing, revision, and even postlaunch evaluations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateOct 20, 2001
    ISBN9780080520315
    Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work
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    Tom Brinck

    Tom Brinck is chief usability officer at Diamond Bullet Design, a firm specializing in web site design and usability consulting. Tom has M.S. degrees in computer science and cognitive psychology from Stanford University and the University of Michigan. He has done user interface research at Apple Computer, Toshiba, and Bellcore and is currently an adjunct faculty member at University of Michigan's School of Information.

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      I'm the lead author of this book, so I'll share my description of it:Usability for the Web presents a beginning-to-end process for web design with an emphasis on pervasive usability, making sites that smoothly serve the needs of the end users by maintaining a focus on user experience throughout the design process. Our systematic process guides designers through setting site goals, getting to know the target audience, creating the content and structure of the site and the flow of interaction, laying out the visual elements, and bringing it all together with fine-tuned production and testing of all the final site elements. We provide examples and suggestions for successful, usable design at every step and in every site element. We emphasize the methods of creative design, audience research, and usability testing, and provide useful checklists and forms throughout to make the process simple, fast, and reproducible.

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