Designing Web Usability
May 4, 2001
Look at the Web as you've never seen it before, through the eyes
of the average user.
Users experience the usability of a site before they have
committed to using it and before they have spent any money on
potential purchases. The Web is the ultimate environment for
empowerment. He or she who clicks the mouse decides everything.
In this landmark design reference, the world's acknowledged
authority on Web usability, Jakob Nielsen, shares with you the
full weight of his wisdom and experience. From content and page
design to designing for ease of navigation and users with
disabilities, Jakob Nielsen delivers complete direction on how to
connect with any Web user, in any situation.
Topics include:
- Site Design: home pages, navigation, search capabilities
- Page Design: cross-platform design, response times, linking,
frames
- Content Design: writing for comprehension, writing with
credibility, using artwork/photos, audio and video, animation,
multimedia
- Intranet Design: information infrastructures, employee
productivity, extranets
- Designing for Users with Disabilities: visual, auditory,
speech, motor, cognitive, assistive technologies
- Designing for an International Audience: translations,
multilingual sites, regional/cultural differences
- Where the Web is Headed: options for the future including
information applicances, Web browsers, restructuring the media
space
- What visitors respond to, and how they respond to it
- Part One
- Site Design
- The Home Page
- The Home Page: Further Examples
- How Wide Should the Page Be?
- Splash Screens Must Die
- Part Two
- The Home Page Versus Interior Pages
- Metaphors
- More Metaphors
- Still More Metaphors
- Part Three
- Navigation
- Navigation: Examples
- Navigation Support in Browsers
- Site Structure
- Hierarchical Structure
- Breadth Versus Depth: Examples
- Breadth Versus Depth: More Examples
- Breadth Versus Depth: Still More Examples
- Part Four
- The User Controls Navigation
- Help Users Manage Large Amounts of Information
- Navigation Aids: Examples
- Subsites
- Part Five
- Search Capabilities
- Advanced Search
- The Search Results Page
- Search Examples
- Search Destination Design
- Search Destination Design: Further Examples
- Part Six
- URL Design
- Fully Specify URLs in HTML Code
- Supporting Old URLs
- Part Seven
- User-Contributed Content
- Slow Operations
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