The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience - Softcover

Van Duyne, Douglask; Landay, James A.; Hong, Jason I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020172149X ISBN 13: 9780201721492

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2002

Synopsis

-- Improve your Web site step-by-step - and boost customer satisfaction and retention.-- Patterns for e-commerce, internationalization, site-branding, education, and more.

-- Optimize home pages, layout, navigation, usability, and performance.

Based upon extensive, ground-breaking research, The Design of Sites introduces a comprehensive, pattern-based approach to making web sites truly customer-centered. Using the 101 patterns presented here, Web and business professionals can learn from the industry's experience and best practices, and dramatically improve customer satisfaction and retention. The authors have chronicled visitors' behavior to find the patterns that emerge from experiences ranging from navigation to e-shopping, and to discover how individual site visits fit into users' larger goals of finding information and making purchasing decisions. Drawing on this research, The Design of Sites introduces proven principles, processes, and patterns for building customer-centered Web sites. Their patterns encompass virtually every key issue, including: creating powerful home pages; managing content; simplifying layouts and navigation; optimizing performance, and much more. For all Web designers, developers and decision-makers seeking to maximize the business value of their Web sites.

About this title

About the Author

Douglas K. van Duyne is cofounder, president, and CEO of NetRaker Corporation, a maker of mission-critical Web site design and usability testing tools. He has been an innovator in online shopping, e-commerce, and multimedia development for such companies as Intel, Safeway, and Cooking.

James A. Landay is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses in human-computer interaction. He is also the CTO and cofounder of NetRaker.

Jason I. Hong is a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked at IBM Research, Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratories, and Xerox Research, and is a consultant for eDealFinder.

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From the Back Cover

"Just following the authors' suggestions would put your site in the top few percent for readability and usability."

Jef Raskin, creator of the Macintosh computer and author of The Humane Interface

Creating a Web site is easy. Creating a well-crafted Web site that provides a winning experience for your audience and enhances your profitability is another matter. It takes research, skill, experience, and careful thought to build a site that maximizes retention and repeat visits.

The authors of The Design of Sites have done much of the research for you. Based on extensive investigation and analysis of more than a hundred high-quality Web sites, this book distills the principles and best practices that make sites enjoyable to visit and an asset to the organizations they serve. This comprehensive resource features a complete set of design patterns that offers proven solutions to common Web design problems. These patterns are applicable to a wide variety of site genres and address every aspect of Web site design, from navigation and content management to e-commerce and site performance. In addition to enhancing the usefulness and quality of your site, these patterns will shorten development cycles and reduce maintenance costs.

Whether you are involved in building a site for business, government, education, or entertainment, The Design of Sites will help you focus on the needs and expectations of your customers and give you the tools you need to create a satisfying and effective Web site.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020172149X
• ISBN 13: 9780201721492
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 762