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Missing from OPAC: User Needs
Submitted by Lori Ayre on Sun, 09/25/2005 - 5:00pmResearch-based Web Design and Usability Guidelines
Submitted by Lori Ayre on Thu, 05/19/2005 - 5:00pmI just discovered an excellent resource for everyone involved in website design, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Research-based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (2003).
Each chapter (available as a separate PDF) focuses on a component such as Design Process and Evaluation, Accessibility, The Homepage, Page Layout, Navigation, Content Organization, etc. There are 17 chapters.
Lower Literacy Web Users
Submitted by Lori Ayre on Mon, 04/18/2005 - 5:00pmIn his March 14, 2005 Alertbox article Lower-Literacy Users, Jakob Nielsen reports that the reading behaviors of lower-literacy users is different from higher-literacy users and offers up some suggestions for website designers.
Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think
Submitted by Lori Ayre on Fri, 01/07/2005 - 4:00pmI'm a big fan of Steve Krug's book, Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. I'm feeling pretty guilty that I just purchased five copies of his book for my co-workers without visting his site first which would have resulted in him getting a hefty kickback from Amazon (via their Associate's program). Oh well.