¨10 Usability
Principles to guide you through the
Web Design Maze
¨Motivate
Design your site to meet
specific user needs and goals. Use motivators to draw different user
"personae" into specific parts of your site.
¨User task flow
Who are your users? What
are their tasks and online environment? For a site to be usable, page
flow must match workflow.
¨Architecture – it's
80% of usability
Build an efficient
navigational structure. Remember – if they can't find it in 3 clicks, they're gone.
¨Affordance means
obvious
Make controls
understandable. Avoid confusion between emblems, banners, and buttons.
¨Replicate
Why reinvent the wheel? Use
ergonomically designed templates for the most common 8-12 pages.