WEB USABILITY

As employed here, usability relates to how easy Web pages are to use by everyday visitors in meeting their requirements for swift and certain understanding of the content, ease and consistency of navigation, comfort with the page layout, and provision of meaningful links to references and resources.

Jakob Nielsen has long been accepted as the guru of Web Usability, and his views & tenets are well presented on his useit.com website via linked interviews and his personal writings.

Nielsen famously outlined the concept and basic premises of Web Usability in one of his periodic Alertbox articles, Usability 101: Introduction to Usability

Following are, in my opinion, noteworthy usability articles and references:

• The web design guru that web designers love to hate.
• How to Make Your Web Site Sing for You.
• A decade of good website design.
• Web 2.0 'neglecting good design'.
• Why You Only Need to Test With 5 Users.

It is the quality of the information that is presented, the simplicity of its composition, and the ease of navigation through it that are the most important features of Web pages for the great majority of visitors.

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