Designing Web Usability

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

Site Design - Page 2

	Title: Designing Web Usability
	ISBN: 156205810X
	US Price: $45.00
	Publication Date: December 1999
	Pages: 432
	New Riders Publishing