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| DESIGN Web Graphic Provides Common Points to Think While Designing a Creative Websites and Innovative Graphics |
Ever visited a website, with the most eye dazzling flash graphics, that take so much time to load, that the aesthetic value of the graphics are just lost on you? Your tired 28.8 kbps dial-up connection at home takes so much time to load the website, that you want to cause serious bodily harm to the person who did not think of the home user's needs, before designing the website. Contact us online for further advice.
Practical techniques, you should keep in mind, before you design (or re-design) your website:
1. Don't force your users to think. Keep user interface decisions simple enough, so that users can make their decisions, without having to draw workflow diagrams.
2. Integrate usability inspection into the website design lifecycle. If time and resources permit, integrate heuristic evaluation (an informal method, where you have usability specialists judge whether each user interface dialog element conforms to established usability principles), plurastic walkthrough (a scenario where developers, users, and Human factors experts walkthrough a simulated user scenario, and deliberate upon user interface issues), and cognitive walkthrough (have people from different disciplines inspect an interface to see whether they walkthrough the user scenario, in the way you expect it to)
3. In the absence of specialized human factor expertise, integrate low cost usability inspection (which would involve you walking through the user scenario or having a few people test the user scenario, and comment upon their experience)
4. Always have people easily figure, where they stand, in the current scheme of things. Implementing this principle would be as easy as having a page name at the top of the page, or in the case of a website, with very deep branches, have a clearly explained path at the top of the page)
5. Keep the navigation in the same place on every page, so your users don't have to go looking for it.
6. Try not to overwhelm users with options. If you have a lot of content, organize the options into logical groups to make it seem like there are fewer of them, when your users interact with the options.
7. Organize the site according to what your users are going to be looking for, not according to your corporate organization chart, or even according to your business priorities, unless they happen to coincide with your users' interests.
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