Website Usability by Design
Description
Our public scheduled sessions are held in Leatherhead, Surrey and any of our courses can be run as a closed course on your site or on one of ours nationwide.
Overview:
Aspect Training's Website Usability by Design one day course looks at web usability through the
application of engineering principles to web site design. Its primary objective is to enable
organisations to formulate and implement a web site strategy which will raise their website's
productivity well above the norm.
Unlike our purely technical web site design courses, its emphasis is on discovery, discussion and
evaluation of the technologies and concepts involved rather than on practical/craft skills
Prerequisites:
This course is recommended for:
- · Web site design professionals who want attract more visitors to their web site and convert a
higher proportion of those visi…
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Our public scheduled sessions are held in Leatherhead, Surrey and any of our courses can be run as a closed course on your site or on one of ours nationwide.
Overview:
Aspect Training's Website Usability by Design one day course looks at web usability through the
application of engineering principles to web site design. Its primary objective is to enable
organisations to formulate and implement a web site strategy which will raise their website's
productivity well above the norm.
Unlike our purely technical web site design courses, its emphasis is on discovery, discussion and
evaluation of the technologies and concepts involved rather than on practical/craft skills
Prerequisites:
This course is recommended for:
- · Web site design professionals who want attract more visitors to their web site and convert a
higher proportion of those visitors into paying customers.
- · Technical managers and commercial directors who want to know why their web site is
under-performing and how to dramatically raise its return on investment, through the
pragmatic application of web usability techniques.
- · Web site content providers and editors who want to build usability methods into their
everyday practice
Course Topics:
Introduction to web site usability
Pragmatism and methodology
Art versus engineering
Why everyone gets web site design wrong the
first time
Page design issues in web usability
Screen space: the scarcest resource
User controlled presentation
Screen resolution
Standard and non-standard content
Application versions
Data lifetimes
Response times
Connections and partial downloads
Link descriptions
Link titles
Link colours
Link consistency and site structure
Link expectations
Outbound links
Inbound links
Linking to subscriptions and registrations
Linking from adverts
Stylesheets for consistency
Stylesheets for separating content from
presentation
Fonts and font sizes
Text size
Frames: just say no
Frames: more reasons to say no
If you must use frames
Printing issues
Web usability testing
Statistics and methods
Whom to test
When and where to test
The test cycle
Conducting a test
Observing a test
Interpreting and using results
Using results
Intranets, accessibility, internationalisation
and usability
Extranets
Intranets
Accessibility
Visual disabilities
Auditory and speech disabilities
Motor and cognitive disabilities
Internationalisation and cultural difference
Content issues in web site usability
Content is critical and web content is different
The value of an editor
Discursive style
Keeping texts short
Checking and copy editing
Scannability
Plain English
Managing long texts by chunking
Page titles
Headings, sub-headings, and pull quotes
Legibility
Understanding image formats
Reducing image file sizes
Multimedia and plugins
Animation
Animation pitfalls
Video
Audio
Downloading and streaming
3D
Conclusion: the attention economy
Navigation and searching in web site
usability
From page design to site design
Homepages are over-estimated
Splash screens — just say no
Navigation: the three big questions
Where am I?
Where have I been?
Where can I go?
Creating and revealing site structure
Reducing navigational clutter
Managing subsites or sections
Search-dominant versus link-dominant users
Implementing searching
Presenting search results
Search term usage
Search destination design
Presenting URLs and domain names
Archival and old URLs
Executable links and URLs
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