The best-selling usability guru is back. Jakob Nielsen with Web usability expert Hoa Loranger revisited "Designing Web Usability" book, creating "an updated companion book that covers the essential changes to the Web and usability today." The book is based on the results and suggestions gained from hundreds of real-world user tests and Web site critiques, the people who "makes Internet".
Creating Web sites is easy. Creating sites that truly meet the needs and expectations of the wide range of online users is quite another story. In Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, renowned Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen shares his insightful thoughts on the subject. Packed with annotated examples of actual Web sites, this book sets out many of the design precepts all Web developers should follow.
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed boldly steps into that gap with specific observations and suggestions backed with solid quantitative analysis. This book focuses only on home page design as the most important point of presence for any Web site.
Anyone who has managed the process of developing or redesigning a Web site of significant size has likely learned the hard way the complexities, pitfalls, and cost risk of such an undertaking.
2> Design it!
Ok, after you fixed your goals, there comes the time to fix the way you do it.
To design a web site means to define its content and the way the user can interact with it.
It's a brand new competence, and it's critical for your web site. Among thousands, we selected these books and these websites for you ; and we suggest you to read them very carefully, while designing *your* web site.
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