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Web Usability and Navigation: A Beginner's Guide

5 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 ...

When Search Meets Web Usability

6 reviews
Shari Thurow, Nick Musica

New Riders Press, 2009

Remarkably helpful -- concise, targeted and immediately useful
I'm a UI and usability professional. Not a search engine optimization expert. So this book offered me the perfect bridge between the two disciplines. In fact, the book discloses some surprising (and surprisingly valuable) nuggets that I'm able to incorporate into my work immediately. This book is a pixel-perfect fit for designers on all ends of the spectrum, and for anyone running an online ...

Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context

5 reviews
Albert N. Badre

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002

Required reading for people serious about Web design
Clear and rigorous, Dr. Badre's book is an essential resource for the serious Web practitioner. Going beyond the usual lists of do's and don'ts, he gives the reader a strong grounding in the field of usability and how its principles apply to the Web. Web designers and implementors who read Shaping Web Usability will not only know what to do, but why -- so they can respond successfully to new and ...

Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers

5 reviews
Sarah Horton

New Riders Press, 2005

Clear, precise, impeccable
Access by Design doesn't waste time or words getting right to the point: accessible Web design isn't about those who have an impairment, but rather about everyone using the Web. Access, by Sarah Horton's definition, is the goal of every visitor to a site, and a designer achieves this goal for visitors by ensuring that nothing in a site is tied to a restrictive approach. The fad of rendering ...

Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability

8 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 ...

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

3 reviews
Steve Krug

New Riders Press, 2009

Recipe for real-world success
When I designed the user experience for the first secure on-line shopping experience at Virtual Vineyards, I lived by a number of principles, two of which were: Quality is an Iterative Process, and The Results of Testing is Information, Not Quality - that demonstrable improvements in design and implementation come from what you choose to do with that information. Steve Krug's "Rocket Surgery ...

Web Accessibility Principles

3 reviews
Zoe Gillenwater

lynda.com, Inc, 2007

This was a lifesaver
I started a site for a contractor and it became clear that it needed to be accessible to visually and mobility impaired users. There is little in one place to use as a resource, but Web Accessibility Principles covers just about everything you need to know and understand for a good foundation. Not only is it well organized, but it demystifies liquid layouts and and a lot of other issues, such ...

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines

3 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 ...

Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose

1 review
Dave Lawrence, Soheyla Tavakol

Springer, 2006

Unique, aestehtically organized, informative & easy to follow
I've found in many website design books, if it is too focused on technical information, it soon feels outdated. I'm pleasantly surprised with this book, since the information offered is mainly on how to design a balanced and aesthetically working website, suitable for any level of expertise in designing a website and for any purpose. I am an artist and love designing my own websites - with mid ...

E-Commerce Usability: Tools and Techniques to Perfect the On-Line Experience

2 reviews
David Travis

CRC Press, 2002

Robust step-by-step process to web usability and task focus
There are 100s of books aimed at people who design web sites. Books that tell you how to write HTML. Books that show you how to design 3D buttons. Books on programming in Perl, Java, etc. This book takes a completely different approach: it assumes that the people who use web sites just want an easy life. This requires simplicity - not complexity. So, this book on web site development hardly ...

Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself

7 reviews
Kelly Braun, Max Gadney, ...

A-Press, 2003

Usability for humans
I for one, am tired of being presented with a prescriptive list of 101 'guidelines' and being told that they will solve all my usability problems, if only I would just implement them. The authors of this book will explain why they bent the rules, and sometimes discarded them completely. The book consists of a pragmatic introduction "beyond the buzz: the true meaning of usability" by Molly ...

Flash 99% Good: A Guide to Macromedia Flash Usability

6 reviews

McGraw-Hill/OsborneMedia, 2002

Very nice, easy to read and understand
This book was an easy read, and very straight foreword. The examples helped me understand many of the mistakes I have been making in my own work. I was disappointed the book didn't come with a CD-ROM, but the book web site more than made up for it.

Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience

18 reviews
James Kalbach

O'Reilly Media, 2007

A must read for web designers
James Kalbach, writing on behalf O'Reilly Media, presents a strategic, consumer-driven approach to web navigation in his book, Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience. The book is very engaging, offering snapshots of up-to-date, colorful, relevant websites pertaining to the specific navigational tools he is explaining. The simple layout and organization of the book make it a ...

Prioritizing Web Usability

28 reviews
Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger

New Riders Press, 2006

Usability 101: Making Your Web Site the Best it Can Be
Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger paired together to create a book packed with the information necessary on what it takes to create a user-friendly Web site. Prioritizing Web Usability hits the center of the target on what the main problems with usability are. This book was written based on a study that the authors performed; this study consisted of testing 69 users across 25 Web sites. After ...

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design

28 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.

Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies)

10 reviews
Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Comprehensive demystification for forms on the web
The web design world has been lacking in a books focusing on forms for a long time, then along come two: "Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability" and Luke Wroblewski's Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. Both books are truly good but if you had to choose just one, I would recommend "Forms that Work", for two reasons. Firstly, while Wroblewski comes from a general web interface ...

Customer-Centered Design: A New Approach to Web Usability

1 review
Kreta Chandler, Karen Hyatt

Prentice Hall PTR, 2002

Effective use of the Web to reach your customers
If you like Jakob Nielsen's books you'll love this one. This easy to use and practical guide, for the first time ever, links the retail shelf, mail order catalogs with the most effective use of web sites to relate to your customer. In this day when budgets are strained, understanding how to link to communication opportunities with your customer is essential. Buy this book and ensure you retain ...

Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites That Work

10 reviews
Tom Brinck, Darren Gergle, ...

San Val, 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, ...

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. ...

Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

493 reviews
Steve Krug

Que, 2000

Incredibly useful, sensible advice!
Great book if you are required to write any content for the web. Good for web admin, web developers, content writers - anyone doing anything on the web really! Highly recommend.

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