Readings on Usability (30 September 2004)
- "How we really use the Web," a chapter from Steve Krug's wonderful book, Don't Make Me Think!
- Jakob Nielsen's "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003" and "Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines"
- Jeff Lash's Information Architecture is not Usability
- Lane Becker's 90% of All Usability Testing is Useless
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When I design a web site, pretty much always for myself, I make something that I like to use myself. Because I have seen many sites out there with squished up text confusing navigation and unclear layout I try to avoid all these things. Plain and simple I am dumb. I'm just a dumb guy trying to use a dumb web page. So I try to make things as easy as possible and I break up text elements where I can. Having a very long column of text without headings makes me glaze over it, so again I try to avoid it.
Posted by: Jason Zeiner on September 30, 2004 01:25 PM | Permalink to CommentI agree. In the past I never took into account who my audience was or why they would be going to my site. I really only thought about the graphics and layout. These readings have really emphasized the importance of usability.
There is a part in the last article that really caught my attention.
" User research becomes a platform for inspirational, usable innovation."
Wow, what a statement.