Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose / Edition 1

by Dave Lawrence, Soheyla Tavakol

Overview

Real Website Design is a new methodology that fuses traditional strengths of structured, stepped, and iterative approaches to design and implementation, sharply focused throughout a project on defining and achieving the desired purpose, usability and aesthetic characteristics - which are essential requirements of any website. This book offers practical discussion of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics, and a down-to-earth, structured approach to designing a website or teaching website design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846285189
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	11/17/2006
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Both authors based at Middlesex University.

Table of Contents

Grounding.- Balanced Website Design (BWD): The Context Explained.- The World of Website Design.- Website Usability.- Aesthetics and Websites.- Methodology Process.- Requirements – Initial Acquisition.- Design Needs – Building the Picture.- Designing the Solution.- Creating the Website.- Implementation Issues.- Software Tools.- Website Hosting and Website Management.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"‘Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches with … the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics.’ … Throughout the book, there are many helpful figures and tables to support the methodology. The structure of the book makes it appropriate for academic use. In addition, practitioners looking for ways to improve or broaden their skills, to serve clients with varying needs and interests, will be interested in reading the book." (M. G. Murphy, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (3), March, 2008)

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