Web Usability & Navigation: A Beginner's Guide

by Merlyn Holmes (Conducted by)

Overview

This is a comprehensive introduction to the theories and principles that drive Web usability and interface design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072192612
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Series:	Beginner's Guides (Osborne)
Pages:	550
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Part I	Seeing Through the Users' Eyes
1	You as a Preeminent User: Put on Your Usability Spectacles	3
2	Swap Out Your Spectacles: Seeing from Other Perspectives	25
3	Get to Know Your Users: Creating User Profiles	55
4	Get to Know Your Users' Computer Constraints	105
5	Know the Web Even Better Than Your Users Do	147
Part II	Designing Web Sites for Your Users
6	Stick to a User-Centric Design Process	185
7	Site Design, First Steps: Getting Users to Your Site	207
8	Information Architecture: Organizing Your Web Site	231
9	Navigation Design	263
10	Site Design Usability Dilemmas	293
11	Screen Design for Usability	329
12	Preparing User-Friendly Content	359
13	Case Studies: Analyzing Web Sites	379
14	Testing, Testing	423
15	Looking Ahead: Through the Users' Eyes	453
Part III	Appendices
A	Mastery Check Answers	481
B	Print and Web Resources	503
C	Web Site Functionality Testing	511
D	Web Site Usability Checklists	529
	Index	537