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14 Guidelines For Web Site Tabs Usability

October 17, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

Tabs have long been used to show alternative views of the same group of information tabs in software. Known as “module tabs”, these are still used today in web sites. For instance, airline companies such as Ryanair, easyJet and AirMalta use module tabs to enable the user to switch between…

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15 Title Tag Optimization Guidelines For Usability and SEO

October 3, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

The HTML title tag defines the name of a web page and should be used to describe content of that page in a concise way. Thus, what is placed between the opening and closing HTML title tag is extremely important for both usability and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In this…

Resources

Official Usability, User Experience & User Interface Guidelines From Companies

September 19, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

Guidelines are considered to be the best resource that designers and developer can use to ensure that the applications and web sites they produce are usable. Operating systems, devices, and development environments are very specific in nature. Because of this, their manufacturers have devised their own set of usability, user…

Business

Why Web Sites With Poor Usability Are Still Being Developed

September 5, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

We all know about the importance of web site usability. There are countless evangelists, guidelines, books, blogs, research papers and whatnot emphasizing the importance and need to develop usable web sites. Yet, very often we still encounter web sites that frustrate us when we try to do even the most…

Resources

10 Free Web-Based Web Site Accessibility Evaluation Tools

August 22, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

Web-based web site accessibility evaluation tools are a handy resource for anyone who wants to ensure that the site they are developing meets established accessibility standards. Since web site accessibility is a subset of web site usability, one needs to ensure that the site is accessible as part of the…

Terminology

The Difference (and Relationship) between Usability and Learnability

August 8, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

The difference between usability and learnability is a subject that has been discussed a number of times particularly because of the concerns that it raises as these two terms are quite often wrongly used interchangeably. The reason why I will be discussing them in this post is very similar to…

The Five Steps Selling Web Site Usability

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The 5 Steps Of Selling Web Site Usability To A Company (Part 2)

July 28, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

In Part 1 of this post, we explored five techniques that will help you overcome the typical difficulties that you may encounter when trying to sell web site usability evaluation as a service to a company. These techniques have been summarized in an easy-to-remember sentence: First understand usability, then explain…

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The 5 Steps of Selling Web Site Usability to a Company (Part 1)

July 25, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

Selling usability is no easy feat. Irrespective of whether you are selling usability evaluation as a service on its own or you form part of a web development company that is trying to sell usability- optimized user interface as an additional service, experience has taught me that there exist a…

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Why Web Site Usability is Important for a Company

July 18, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

On the World Wide Web, a company’s web site is the only point of contact that a company has with anyone who is interested in it. Thus, companies entirely rely on their web presence in order to achieve their online goals, be they commercial or otherwise. This scenario, viewed from…

Terminology

The Difference (and Relationship) Between Usability and User Experience

July 11, 2011 by Justin Mifsud

After web site accessibility, “user experience” (abbreviated as UX) is probably the phrase that most people tend to confuse usability with. Whilst this topic has been discussed by various experts in the respective fields, I feel the need to write about it for two main reasons. The first reason is…