| Website Design Usability Tips | | | | is hidden, but it may also mean that people won't |
| 1. Getting to know about audience members | | | | know where to click to go somewhere. |
| You want a site that has personality and quality | | | | 6. Get user feedback |
| content based on your audience taste. You have to | | | | Find out what works and what doesn't. |
| understand their color preferences, technical skills and | | | | 7. Study site visitor performance |
| any prevalence of special needs. | | | | How long does it take to performance a given task? |
| 2. Make the interface simple and obvious | | | | The time it takes to do thing has got to be |
| The more obvious the interface is, the less | | | | reasonable. If it's not reasonable, improve user |
| frustration the site visitor has to guess about how | | | | interaction wherever possible. |
| your site works. You want the audience to | | | | 8. Help section (site map, 404) |
| concentrate on the content, not the interface. | | | | When site visitors make a mistake try to provide |
| 3. Readability | | | | many ways to help them out of it. |
| Make paragraph easy to read. Don't use small text | | | | 9. Test early and test often |
| for font size. | | | | Test your code for bugs on web browsers. Test the |
| 4. Make your page fast loading | | | | interface for usability. Ask your friends and colleagues |
| Reduce the waiting time is a must if your page over | | | | for in depth and valuable feedback. |
| 20KB. | | | | Please don't think that the website usability |
| 5. Avoid hidden (rollover to reveal) navigation | | | | techniques discussed above are the be all and end all |
| It makes for a very clean design if all your navigation | | | | of web usability as they are not. |