Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide

Jared M. Spool

ISBN 10: 155860569X / ISBN 13: 9781558605695

Published by Morgan Kaufmann, 1998

About this Item

Aus Bibliothek aussortiert; Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke; Gebrochener Buchrücken. Web Site 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155860569X
• ISBN 13: 9781558605695
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Design

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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 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.

Carolyn Snyder is an internationally recognized usability consultant with 10 years of experience in usability and another 10 as a software engineer and project manager. She has taught usability testing and paper prototyping to development teams at dozens of companies. She is co-author of Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide and E-Commerce User Experience.