Principles Of Effective Web Design

[mandy]

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 can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.

We aren’t 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/

[BellisimaJ.]

Great article, Mandy.

I think that has to be the best article I've read on usability/design.

[mandy]

5 more principles of effective website design:

This article highlights 5 further 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/2008/04/...eb-design/