Website Usability articles and links
Interested in finding out more about website usability and good design practices? Have a look at the reviews and articles available here. Please note: the articles represent a range of perspectives and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Netbyte Internet Ltd owners or staff.
| Article: Special Report: Design Usability |
Seven Pitfalls to Avoid in Information Architecture
"After five years of authoring and coding, many of us are stuck with Web sites and intranets that are huge, messy, unusable and impossible to maintain. With such a great demand for help, there are many inexperienced information architects repeatedly making the same mistakes." Read more.
| Article: Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 |
Jakob Nielson, advocate of usable websites reports on what he sees as being the top 10 design mistakes of 2002. These include: horizontal scrolling, infrequently asked questions in FAQ sections and long URL’s (web addresses). Read more.
| Article: Homepage Real Estate Allocation |
"A homepage really has two main goals: to give users information, and to serve as their top-level navigation for information that's inside the site. However, these two goals accounted for only 39% of the screen space across a sample of 50 homepages." Read more
| Website: Web Pages That Suck |
A website focused on learning about good web designby looking at bad web design. Interesting array of information and articles. Visit the website.
| Usability and the Web: An Overview |
An organization's web site is a gateway to its information, products and services. As such, it should ideally be a reflection of the needs of the clients it serves. Unfortunately, web site design and development is often driven by technology or by organizational structure or business objectives, rather than by user needs. In recent years however, web site owners and developers have gradually begun to acknowledge and address the issue of usability. Read More.
