Comments on: An Introduction to Web Usability for Graphic Designers

By: Billigflüge

Billigflüge — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:20:32 +0000

A very interesting post. It is not so easy to find the balance between the usabiltiy and a good design. This post helped me to figure that out in the future.

Regards.

By: Tara: Freelance Designer

Tara: Freelance Designer — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:12:29 +0000

Hi Jim

Interesting analogy – writing comedy is like web usability you should write a blog post on that

Thanks

Tara

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:34:44 +0000

A college buddy of mine writes for television shows. One day while I was expressing my admiration for such an achievement he stopped me. “The average person has seen over 2,000 sitcom episodes,” he reasoned, “Everybody knows what a sitcom episode should look like, the only difference between me and the average person is I get paid to write down what everyone already knows.”

I feel the same about web usability design. If you use the web frequently everyday what works and what doesn’t should be second nature to you. If it’s not (or you don’t) and you are considering jumping from your graphic design career into a web design career you should either have second thoughts or start using the web as much as you can. The ability to notice good usability is within you – after all you are a user are you not?

By: mario oyunları

mario oyunları — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:04:57 +0000

Great tips on Usability, probably one of the most important areas of web development that doesn’t get a lot of attention. And for everyone that comment on “Don’t Make Me Think,” great book.

By: Beceri Oyunları

Beceri Oyunları — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:04:56 +0000

I really like design for print and often avoid web design but it is certainly more persuasive to be able to offer design for the web as well as print as many companies want everything done by one designer or agency.

By: Evolvit

Evolvit — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:27:31 +0000

so many websites are to complicated in their design – you never know where your meant to click or where you should go in order to find the subject matter you want. I think this article stresses the point that you certainly need a clear map of how the website should work, it is no good creating a sub page where you have no idea where or how to reach it. This is also stressed in the testing point of the article…. so many people fail to test their site and users are often left in limbo because they are taken away to a link that doesn’t work or fails to produce the content they expect to find!

By: Slate PC games

Slate PC games — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:27:37 +0000

Web design is a relatively new profession in comparison with other medias. This means that the rules and thought processes behind web design are still in the ‘developing’ period and change dramatically every year. One of the most important features of a webpage is its navigation. Without navigation, users are not able to find their way through the content on the website. Web designers intentionally place the navigation on the left hand side of the content or horizontally below the header, as users are conditioned to look there first.

By: muzik shqip

muzik shqip — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:04:37 +0000

It is a fact that a site has to be designed for the client (users), but what about the SEO standarts ? Do we have to forget them ?

By: Bekim

Bekim — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:59:38 +0000

Great tips. Even smaller sites sometimes make their sites unnecessarily into a deep navigation. Even me sometimes dont think clearly about the navigation of a site. The best thing is to keep it as simple as possible.

By: Clayton Shumway

Clayton Shumway — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:20:00 +0000

Great post. Many web designers don’t think about navigation when they start making pages and links. Best thing to do is visually map it out, then design it.