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Usability Guidelines - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about usability guidelines.
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- US - Government Web Usability Guidelines
- The Guidelines were developed to assist those involved in the creation of Web sites to base their decisions on the most current and best available evidence. The Guidelines are particularly relevant to the design of information-oriented sites, but can be applied across the wide spectrum of Web sites.
Added: 2 November 2006
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- Usability Guidelines
- Articles and resources about usability guidelines.
Added: 19 December 2005
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- Mobile UX Sharpens Usability Guidelines
- Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, November 7, 2011. Summary: Many guidelines are similar for mobile and desktop design, but their mobile interpretation is much more unforgiving.
Added: 21 November 2011;
Page views: 458
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- COI usability toolkit
- UK Central Office of Information. "To help Web editors and Web content developers incorporate the basics of usability across all public sector websites..."
Added: 5 May 2009;
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- 2008 Ecommerce Usability for High Street Retailers
- Webcredible, October 2008. "The 2008 Ecommerce Usability for High Street Retailers report is an update on the highly popular ecommerce usability reports of 2006 and 2007. The report evaluates the websites of 20 of the UK's leading high street retailers. Based on our experience of usability testing with over 1000 people on a variety of ecommerce sites, we devised 20 essential guidelines that all ecommerce websites should adhere to, evaluating each site against these guidelines...This report is aimed at anyone involved with a website trying to sell products or services, including marketing managers, Internet managers and web developers. Although our analysis was of the ecommerce websites for high street retailers, the guidelines are highly transferable to other websites. The report assumes no prior usability or technical knowledge..." [Requires registration]
Added: 6 November 2008;
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- Online videos: Engaging your users
- by Mrudula Kodali. Webcredible, September 2008. "Online video is big business nowadays. Websites dedicated to video like Youtube, BBC iPlayer and 4oD have taken off in a big way, and an increasing number of websites are introducing video content to keep users engaged. This spread of online videos is in no small part due to the ever improving connection speeds - 90% of internet connections in the UK are through broadband (source: UK Statistics Authority). However, if you're considering introducing video content to your site or looking to make the best of your existing video content, you must put the user experience at the forefront of your proposition. Here are some guidelines to enhance the usability of online video..."
Added: 1 September 2008;
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- 14 Website Usability Guidelines That Keep them Coming Back for More
- by Stoney deGeyter. Search Engine Guide, April 1, 2008. "Sites that are designed to sell products and/or services must go the extra mile to enhance the visitor's engagement with the website. Shopping cart abandonment (shoppers abandoning their carts before deciding to pay for the "items" they've added to their cart) can result in a significant loss in potential sales. But much of that can be reduced when the shopping process is streamlined and geared for shopper satisfaction..."
Added: 2 April 2008;
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- 7 usability guidelines for websites on mobile devices
- by Abid Warsi. Webcredible, October 2007. "... These 7 guidelines are based on actual user research conducted with mobile phone users. Users were asked to carry out typical tasks on popular websites using a mobile phone browser. The issues they encountered were used to produce these guidelines..."
Added: 1 October 2007;
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- The book on Web design
- HHS, GSA apply research to make the ultimate guide to Web design, By Trudy Walsh. Government Computer News, 18 June 2007. "Take a team of experienced Web design researchers, add the evidence of hundreds of research studies, pour it all into a user-friendly format and stir. The result, "Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines," is a handy 267-page cookbook for building better Web sites, produced jointly by the Health and Human Services Department and the General Services Administration..."
Added: 21 June 2007;
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- Change vs. Stability in Web Usability Guidelines
- Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, June 11, 2007. "Summary: A remarkable 80% of findings from the Web usability studies in the 1990s continue to hold today..."
Added: 14 June 2007;
Page views: 1,786
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- Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines
- Current Research-Based Guidelines on Web Design and Usability Issues. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2006. "The Guidelines were developed to assist those involved in the creation of Web sites to base their decisions on the most current and best available evidence. The Guidelines are particularly relevant to the design of information-oriented sites, but can be applied across the wide spectrum of Web sites..."
Added: 1 November 2006;
Page views: 3,014
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- Web Usability Guide
- Webcredible, 2005 - "The Web Usability Guide is a comprehensive 30-page introduction to usability. It contains best practice guidance for general usability, web writing and ecommerce. It also features a comprehensive introduction to usability testing and user-centered design..."
Added: 27 February 2006;
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This category last updated: 21 November 2011
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