Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide (Interactive Technologies) - Softcover

Spool, Jared; Scanlon, Tara; Snyder, Carolyn; DeAngelo, Terri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155860569X ISBN 13: 9781558605695

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999

Synopsis

Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide is a report that every person involved in Web design, commerce, or online marketing will want to have. This book is, undoubtedly, the most comprehensive data demonstrating how Web sites actually work when users need specific answers. Researched and compiled by User Interface Engineering, the results are written in an easy to understand style, illustrating the need to make Web sites useful, not complicated.

* Based on an extensive study of actual users -- not theory, not graphic design principles, and not new tricks to make a "cool" Web sites
* Demonstrates how people actually navigate and extract information on Web sites
* Offers guidance for evaluating and improving the usability of Web sites

About this title

Review:

Without a doubt, the most important book I've read this year on Web design is Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide. The book is easy to read and full of relevant information.--Bill Skeet Chief Designer, Knight-Ridder New Media

Even experienced Web designers should read these usability findings about 11 different site designs. Competitive usability testing is one of the most powerful ways of learning about design and this book will save you hours of lab time.----Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group

This report challenges many of my assumptions about Web design, but that's a good thing. We're still babes in the woods, crawling along trying to distinguish the trees from the forest. Any sign posts are helpful, right now.--Mary Deaton, KNOWware

"Web Site Usability is great reading for anyone involved in Web publishing." - Currents

About the Author:

Jared M. Spool, Principal Investigator, is with User Interface Engineering, a consulting firm specializing in product usability and design. User Interface Engineering's mission is to empower product development teams to build applications that meet the needs of their users by providing critical data for creating designs and products that work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 155860569X
• ISBN 13: 9781558605695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176