Designing Web Usability
- ISBN13: 9781562058104
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Product Description
Users experience the usability of a web site before they have committed to using it and before making any purchase decisions. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Designing Web Usability is the definitive guide to usability from Jakob Nielsen, the world’s leading authority. Over 250,000 Internet professionals around the world have turned to this landmark book, in which Nielsen shares the full weight of his wisdom and experience. From content and page design to designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities, he 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 they’re after quickly; 2. If they don’t know what they’re after, they nevertheless want to browse quickly and access information they come across in a logical manner. This book is a must-have for anyone who thinks seriously about the web.
Amazon.com ReviewCreating Web sites is easy. Creating sites that truly meet the needs and expectations of the wide range of online users is quite another story. In Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, renowned Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen shares his insightful thoughts on the subject. Packed with annotated examples of actual Web sites, this book sets out many of the design precepts all Web developers should follow.
This guide segments discussions of Web usability into page, content, site, and intranet design. This breakdown skillfully isolates for the reader many subtly different challenges that are often mixed together in other discussions. For example, Nielsen addresses the requirements of viewing pages on varying monitor sizes separately from writing concise text for “scanability.” Along the way, the author pulls no punches with his opinions, using phrases like “frames: just say no” to immediately make his feelings known. Fortunately, his advise is some of the best you’ll find.
One of the unique aspects of this title is the use of actual statistics to buttress the author’s opinions on various techniques and technologies. He includes survey results on sizes of screens, types of queries submitted to search portals, response times by connection type and more. This book is intended as the first of two volumes–focusing on the “what.” The author promises a follow-up title that will show the “hows” and, based on this installation, we can’t wait. –Stephen W. Plain
Topics covered: Cross-platform design, response time considerations, writing for the Web, multimedia implementation, navigation strategies, search boxes, corporate intranet design, accessibility for disabled users, international considerations, and future predictions.
This guy has no imagination. If you are a WEB DESIGNER Jakob Nielson is the ANTICHRIST. If you read this book YOU have no imagination. I have a picture of Jakob on my wall. I throw darts at it. If I ever see this guy in public I would spit in his face.
Rating: 1 / 5
this play must be read at least twice in order to get
a real sense of whats going on.Ibsen created a timeless work of art when he wrote Hedda Gabler.Here we have a simple plot,A woman who feels that she is trapped in a loveless marriage,discovers that her old love is back in town. To make things more complicated for Hedda, this old lover is a rival of her husband.To add insult to injury,her old lover is being helped by the woman she hates.But I wouldn’t fell too sorry for our Hedda, from the very opening of the play we get a chance to see who Hedda really is.In this scene we see George Tessman, Hedda’s husband admiring the new bonnet of his aunt Miss Juliana Tessman,who has just placed it on a chair.Hedda enters.
Hedda-
Tessman, this servant will never do.
Miss Tessman-
Berta will never do ?
Tessman-
Whatever put that in your head, dear?
Hedda-
Look at that! She has left her old hat lying around on a chair.
Tessman-
Why, Hedda–
Hedda-
Suppose anyone had come in and had seen it!
Tessman-
But Hedda! That bonnet’s Aunt Julia’s
Hedda-
It is ?
Miss Tessman(picking up the hat)
Yes, indeed. And what’s more,it;s not old.
Hedda knew that the hat belonged to Miss Tessman,and that it wasn’t old.This is where the reader get a sense of what Hedda is about.We see the woman full of jealousy,needing always to be the center of attention.
Rating: 5 / 5
I first encountered Jakob’s shinning masterpiece, whilst studying a BSc In Ingorability, and as soon as it came, I took it in my stride and followed through till the last page, the quality of research,presentation and shallowness put this book as one of my top favourites all of times, The Nielsen kid is able to conjure a great book which offers the reader nothing new, everything that is stated within this book is readily available at your feet fetish on the world wide web. I would encourage all mum’s & pop looking into buying this book to improve their under the cover usability methods to forgo on buying this book and simply send jakob some high heel boots
Rating: 3 / 5
If you enjoyed Roger Black telling you how to design for the web, you’re going to love this. You’re probably also a beaten house-wife.
I have witnessed over and over again, the deep heated desire to control creatives. I believe it largely stems from envy. This guy probably had a problem with sound in movies, color television and graphics on web pages.
If you want to really learn something about useability, try Edward Tufte.
Nice cover design though. I suspect he objected to that as well.
Rating: 1 / 5
If you don’t mind a book thta does nothing but criticize a technology and art that are evolving, then this is the book for you. No matter what the project, Mr. Nielsen can always do it better. I think he should correct the usability problems on his own Web site, before being declared king of Web usability.
This book is way over-rated.
Rating: 2 / 5