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Taglist for "Web Usability"

Designing Beautiful User-Experiences for the Web
Dec 23, 2009

User Experience (UX) design is traditionally categorised under the broader paradigm of web usability. It pertains to the building of architecture and interaction models that influence a user’s experience with and perception of websites. This article however, will not serve as an ordinary how-to guide on web usability tests/analysis, but rather, it aims to introduce a different perspective to user-experience studies – the meta-narrative. 

Design Philosophy Explained – The Logic behind the Fluff
Nov 29, 2009

The word “philosophy” is often used as a jargon-laden indicator relating to complex problems and metaphysical abstractness but what does “design philosophy” imply both in terms of its theoretical weight and as a subject of study? In this piece, I will attempt to explicitly define ‘philosophy’ within the context of design, in more idiot-proof parlance.

 

The Dynamics of Web Usability – What it Really Means
Nov 14, 2009

Web usability evangelists have waxed lyrical for the past decade about the key principles behind user functionality in web design, but are designers understanding and implementing them correctly as intended? Let us first examine their main premise of a usable website. A website has to communicate effectively with its readers whilst also ensuring that it functions in a simple and efficient manner, hence the (over-used) backronym, “KISS”, ‘Keep It Simple Stupid’. Under a fool-proof usability framework, the user should be able to intuitively identify the possible user-oriented actions that can be performed on a specific page with minimal hesitation or after thought.