Short description
This text is a turorial and exposition of the principles of web site design. It is designed to help the reader build web sites that stand out and covers: page design; multimedia design; site design and intranet design.
Long description
Users experience the usability of a site before they have committed to using it and before they have spent any money on potential purchases. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Jakob Nielsen, shares with you the full weight of his wisdom and experience. From content and page design to designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities, Nielsen delivers complete direction on how to connect with any web user, in any situation. Nielsen has arrived at a series of principles that work in support of his findings: 1. that web users want to find what theyre after quickly, and 2. if they dont know what theyre after, they nevertheless want to browse quickly and access information they come across in a logical manner.
Review
"Robust advice on designing for maximum speed and simplicity. Well, illustrated, bracingly opinionated and riveting."www.mantex.co.uk, Sep 2001 "Anybody who has the slightest interest in web pages, site design, and information architeture should read this book. I feel quite confident that it is destined to become a classic."www.mantex.co.uk, 2000 "If you want to know about usability and the Web, this is obviously the place to come to. Very well designed, plenty of white space with numerous coloured illustrations of real Web pages. Overall, it is a pleasure to browse it."http://informationr.net, August 2001
Table of contents
- Managing Web design
- Web usability engineering
- user
- testing Web design
- page design
- multimedia desing
- site design
- designing Web applications
- intranet design