Usability Design
by Garth A. Buchholz | DigitalPractices Media Inc. ISSN 1920-1893
Categories: content, contentology, customer experience, digital practices, information design, interaction design, mal practices, navigation design, reference, usability, web analytics, web design, web strategy | 1 Comment

With apologies to Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten, here are the Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design, from someone who has worked as a Web Manager and Web Strategist for many years: 1. The Web Strategy doesn’t follow the Business Strategy. Whether you’re designing for a Fortune 1000 corporation, a SOHO business, a government agency or [...]

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Every day millions of Internet searchers use Google or other high-speed search engines such as MSN Search. Are all these Googlers just doing the “search lurch”? Try a few key words, click a few search results, and maybe they’ll find what they’re looking for in a few seconds. Or maybe they’ll just give up and [...]

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Jesse James Garrett is author of the landmark information architecture book, Elements of User Experience. He is also the founding partner of Adaptive Path, a user experience consulting company. The Elements of User Experience got its start on your Web site. What are the origins of that book? The model described in the book really [...]