Designing Web Usability, Issue 667Users experience the usability of a web site before they have committed to using it and before making any purchase decisions. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Designing Web Usability is the definitive guide to usability from Jakob Nielsen, the world's leading authority. Over 250,000 Internet professionals around the world have turned to this landmark book, in which Nielsen shares the full weight of his wisdom and experience. From content and page design to designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities, he delivers complete direction on how to connect with any web user, in any situation. Nielsen has arrived at a series of principles that work in support of his findings: 1. That web users want to find what they're after quickly; 2. If they don't know what they're after, they nevertheless want to browse quickly and access information they come across in a logical manner. This book is a must-have for anyone who thinks seriously about the web. |
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... single style sheet file rather than by modifying thousands of content pages . Use a single style sheet for all the pages on your site ( or possibly a few coordinated ones if you have pages with very different needs : technical ...
... single menu at a time . And many of the menus are so long that they require scrolling , meaning that users can't even view the entire list of options in a menu in a single glance . Thus , American Airlines ' approach works only if the ...
... single - click interaction style of the Web . The main reason for double - click is to allow two operations to be over- loaded onto a single - button mouse . Designers of more recent multi - button GUIs have faithfully duplicated a ...