02-06-2008, 11:56 AM
Quote:Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users cant use a feature, it might as well not exist.
We arent going to discuss the implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information...
full article: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/...eb-design/
