Best of
Usability
2003
How to Make Brilliant Stuff That People Love...: And Make Big Money Out of It
Patrick W. Jordan - 2003
It offers an integrated, holistic approach to the whole process. It's integrative because the design, marketing, and branding must give a clear and consistent story about the product. It's holistic becuase "total design" engages consumers on all levels
Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them
Jeff Johnson - 2003
A large part of what is missing is quality; a primary component of the missing quality is usability. The Web is not nearly as easy to use as it needs to be for the average person to rely on it for everyday information, commerce, and entertainment. In response to strong feedback from readers of GUI BLOOPERS calling for a book devoted exclusively to Web design bloopers, Jeff Johnson calls attention to the most frequently occurring and annoying design bloopers from real web sites he has worked on or researched. Not just a critique of these bloopers and their sites, this book shows how to correct or avoid the blooper and gives a detailed analysis of each design problem. Hear Jeff Johnson's interview podcast on software and website usability at the University of Canterbury (25 min.) * Discusses in detail 60 of the most common and critical web design mistakes, along with the solutions, challenges, and tradeoffs associated with them. * Covers important subject areas such as: content, task-support, navigation, forms, searches, writing, link appearance, and graphic design and layout. * Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability test performed by web designers themselves. * Features its own web site (www.web-bloopers.com)with new and emerging web design no-no's (because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use.