Designing Usable Web Interfaces

Written from the practical perspective of web designers and developers, this book explores the planning, conceptualizing, and designing of usable, high-quality, efficient, and effective web sites. Using simple and easy-to-understand language, analogies, actual website examples, and a case study, it offers a holistic and non-prescriptive in approach, sensitizing readers to the important issues and systematic conceptualizations that will lead to effective websites and an efficient development process—but without making decisions for them. What Is Web Design? Types of Web Applications. The Project Team. The Project Development Process. Information Architecture. Interface Design. Writing for the Web. Measuring Success of a Web Site. Web Site Development Case Study. For Web designers, web developers; project managers; interface designers; and web design clients.