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Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies) 5 reviews
Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney
Morgan Kaufmann, 2008
Instant insights, design forms that will work immediately!
As a web analytics consultant I often need to dive into the world of Usability in order to see the big picture. Measuring shopping cart or sign-up form abandonment rates is only 'my' side of the story, trying to understand which checkout process are stopping a visitor from completing your form or process is the other half.
Caroline Jarrett's and Gerry Gaffney's book "Forms that Work: Designing ...
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Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability 10 reviews
Luke Wroblewski
Wiley, 2002
Visual & "wordy" is what makes this book great!
As a fan of Site-Seeing, I must respond to a few of the reviews asserting that the author should have condensed certain material in the book. For me, the many visual examples and the great, detailed explanations (one reviewer suggested "wordy") are exactly what makes this book so useful. Rather than just skimming over important design concepts, the author actually takes the time to properly ...
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Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES) 26 reviews
Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger
New Riders Press, 2006
Great resource!
This book validates things I've have known for years and guarantees I have been on the right track. It also allows us as Information Architects to reference areas of workflow that are up for debate daily, such as what users look for on a page, where and how often.
This book is a must for any IA or web designer.
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Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive Technologies)10 reviews
Tom Brinck, Darren Gergle, ...
Morgan Kaufmann, 2001
Seven user navigation models are excellent
This book contains a lot of usable usability practices that really works! You can get literally all the details of usability testing practices in this book, as well as how to run them. And good amount of pages are spent for user needs analysis and task analysis as the first steps explaining Web site engineering approach. When reading this book, my first impression was that many worksheets, ...
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When Search Meets Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
Shari Thurow, Nick Musica
New Riders Press, 2009
This book delivers a proactive approach to building an effective Web site that is search engine friendly and will result in better search rankings. It outlines the steps needed to bridge the gap between a Google search and a Web site, and also improve the users' experience once they get to the site. By understanding the wide variety of information-seeking strategies and the individual behaviors associated with them, this book helps information ...
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition468 reviews
Steve Krug
New Riders Press, 2005
Waiting for the next installment
This is a great primer text for usability testing. It's easy to read in just a few hours and makes you laugh at the craziness of web page evolution to date. You won't be able to look at a web page in the same way after reading this book. Krug gives you the reasoning behind putting things in certain places on a web page. It's not random. You will want to buy a good book on Cascading Style ...
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Web Site Usability Handbook (Internet Series)8 reviews
Mark Pearrow
Charles River Media, 2006
very easy read
I loved this book. I am a new psychology PhD looking to get into web usability consulting and this book was perfect for me. I have not read other books on the topic but i can say that I am glad I found this one. It was a very easy read, and i really learned a lot. I like how it takes a psychological viewpoint much of the time. I also really like how he sets you up 100% to be a usability tester. ...
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Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach
Jonathan Lazar
Addison Wesley, 2005
User Interface Design/Human Computer Interaction Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach Jonathan Lazar, Towson University ISBN 0-321-32135-9 DESIGN WITH THE USER IN MIND A Web site design that does not consider its user is a Web site that is destined to be a disappointing experience for the user. This new book by Jonathan Lazar provides readers with the concepts and tools needed to develop Web sites that maximize the user experience. ...
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Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience17 reviews
James Kalbach
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007
Your users will thank you for reading this...
The ability to navigate a web site can make or break your user's experience. I learned far more than I thought even existed in the book Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience by James Kalbach. It's obviously more than just putting a list of links down the left side of the screen...
Contents:
Part 1 - Foundations of Web Navigation: Introducing Web Navigation; Understanding ...
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Designing Web Usability (VOICES)234 reviews
Jakob Nielsen
Peachpit Press, 1999
Very nice book
this is a very good book about web usability and its not a complex kind of book, you start reading it and u dont want to stop it untill you finish it!
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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design26 reviews
Robert Hoekman Jr.
New Riders Press, 2006
I want my whole team to read this!!
I love this book for it's brevity, clarity and simplicity. While everything in this book is obvious and common sense, it is still amazingly useful. You should not underestimate your minds ability to ignore and distort such obvious things, especially when we are emotionally invested in the product. Reading this book is helpful when starting or reviewing a product.
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Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines2 reviews
Sanjay J. Koyani, Robert W. Bailey, ...
Computer Psychology, 2004
Buy the Book
These guidelines are available for free on the web at http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html. But, the best way to view then is on paper and not on your computer monitor. Do be warned if you try to print, you will need a color printer, as much of the information is lost in black and white. So, save yourself a big hassle and the cost of much toner/ink - buy the book!
The 187 peer-reviewed ...
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Web Usability and Navigation: A Beginner's Guide5 reviews
McGraw-Hill Companies, 2002
"Required reading" for designing usable websites
I think this book is "required reading" for anyone serious about designing usable websites. I am the lead web developer for my department in an academic/scientific institution. Our scientists here have embraced the value of the Internet to market themselves and their research. Consequently, there is an effort to publish more and more of their scientific research material in an online ...
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Web ReDesign: Strategies for Success
Kelly Goto
lynda.com, Inc, 2006
Today's web landscape is quickly changing, and web companies, in-house teams, designers, and developers are racing to keep up. Web Redesign: Strategies for Success teaches the techniques and tools to help move teams in the right direction, whether they need to do a complete redesign or just need to supplement an ongoing strategy. Instructor Kelly Goto develops strategy based on an iterative approach, focusing on branding and audience, ...
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Web Site Usability (Interactive Technologies) 34 reviews
Terri DeAngelo
Morgan Kaufmann, 1998
Save Yourself Hundreds of Dollars
Save yourself hundreds of dollars by buying this book. No, that is not an offer, but if you were to pay a consultant for this good advice, it would easily cost hundreds of dollars (I know, I am a consultant). The advice is good and concise. Much of it is counter to conventional wisdom, but is in line with more experienced Web designers.
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Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines1 review
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2006
Useful List of Web Usability Guidelines
Please read the entire review -- important information at the end!
This review reflects the first edition, which I have had a chance to read. But, I want to direct this review to potential customers of the revised edition.
In the rapidly changing world of Web design, much valued current information is passed on informally rather than in written form -- as this becomes dated so quickly.
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Web Engineering1 review
Springer, 2005
Web Engineering - A New Engineering Discipline at the Horizon
Have you recently been tried to create a web page or web application or tried to web enable an existing application? Have you researched how this should be done best before you started to create the program code? If so, you may have come across "Web Engineering", edited by Emilia Mendes and Nile Mosley. The editors make the claim that an established engineering discipline like Software ...
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Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability8 reviews
Elfriede Dustin, Jeff Rashka, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001
Excellent book on various quality topics
This book was a joy to read. It gives a great overview of quality issues within "Web systems" - meaning Web applications and architectures. The book balances a too-specific look with a too-general look and succeeds quite well in a balanced treatment that will make the whole worth the attention of any quality assurance or quality tester professional in the Information Technology industry. In ...
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Eyetracking Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
Jakob Nielsen, Kara Pernice
New Riders Press, 2009
Eyetracking is a hot new field in user interface design. What better way to explore this growing field than with master usability expert Jakob Nielsen showing the way? Jakob and his coauthor Kara Pernice train thousands of people each year on Web usability, and in this book they demonstrate what can be learned from users' eye paths over a broad variety of Web designs. Readers learn how much a user's goal or task influences the way they read and ...
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites106 reviews
Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006
A book that defines a new field in the digital world.
I did not know the astounding amount of intersection between Library Science and Web Site Design until I read this book. If you design big web sites, corporate intranets, or other information sources you owe it to your users to read this book.
The first part of the book starts with a gentle, but cogent introduction to the nascent field of Information Architecture. Part two looks at ways of ...
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