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Design in Infospace
This page deals with how to design a website to optimise the
user's experience and benefits from it. Especially oriented
towards the "Information Architecture", i.e. designing the
organization and navigation systems that help users find
information, this topic is a meld of concepts from traditional
architecture, library science, user interface design, and
usability studies.
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Web Design - More Than Meets the
Eye
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Many elements go into succesful web site design; we can cluster those
elements into sensory, conceptual, and reactive aspects. That is, design
isn't only what you see, it's also what you think and feel as you
navigate a web site. This article explores some of the basic principles
of web site design, and provides many links to other resources for
further detailed study.
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
by L. Rosenfeld & P. Morville; O'Reilly & Associates; Nov 1997,
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is about applying the
principles of architecture and library science to web site design.
Each web site is like a public building,
available for tourists and regulars alike to
breeze through at their leisure.
The job of the architect is to set up the
framework for the site to make it comfortable and inviting for people to
visit, relax in, and perhaps even return to someday.
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