CP202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Usability, College Road Trip, Imdb
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A usable website is: easy to learn, efficient to use, memorable, easy to recover from errors, pleasant to use, useful. If the user has to think about how to use the page, it"s a poorly designed page. Self-evident pages (exam back up your answer) A tool should be self-evident, or at least self-explanatory. These are examples of different search mechanisms. Use text elements that are easily scannable rather than dense text: point form, titles, bolded keywords, text with whitespace are scannable contrast. See how users read on the web: midterm heat tracking how it works, a little about the tech of how they track it, how to design pages accordingly, etc. Homepages are a user"s introduction to your site - make it count: if home page isn"t nice then people won"t want to visit the rest of your site. English-speakers read left to right, top to bottom.
