Web bloopers : 60 common web design mistakes, and how to avoid them / Jeff Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Jeff (Consultant)

Series:

Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies.

Interactive Technologies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann ; Oxford : Elsevier Science, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The dot.com crash of 2000 was a wake-up call, and told us that the Web has far to go before achieving the acceptance predicted for it in '95. A large part of what is missing is quality; a primary component of the missing quality is usability. The Web is not nearly as easy to use as it needs to be for the average person to rely on it for everyday information, commerce, and entertainment.In response to strong feedback from readers of GUI BLOOPERS calling for a book devoted exclusively to Web design bloopers, Jeff Johnson calls attention to the most frequently occurring and annoying desig

Contents:

Front Cover; Web Bloopers; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Bloopers in the Content and Functionality of the Website; Chapter 1. Content Bloopers; Blooper 1: Home Page Identity Crisis; Blooper 2: Confusing Classifications; Blooper 3: Unhelpful Descriptions; Blooper 4: Conflicting Content; Blooper 5: Outdated Content; Blooper 6: Missing or Useless Content; Blooper 7: Unfinished Content; Chapter 2. Task-Support Bloopers; Blooper 8: Redundant Requests; Blooper 9: Requiring Unneeded Data; Blooper 10: Pointless Choice

Blooper 11: Omitting Important OptionsBlooper 12: Clueless Back-end; Blooper 13: Dead-end Paths: Now You Tell Me!; Blooper 14: Agonizing Task Flow; Part II: Bloopers in the User Interface of the Website; Chapter 3. Navigation Bloopers; Blooper 15: Site Reflects Organizational Chart; Blooper 16: Numerous Navigation Schemes; Blooper 17: Deceptive Duplicate Links; Blooper 18: Not Linking Directly; Blooper 19: Lost in Space: Current Page Not Indicated; Blooper 20: The Circle Game: Active Link to Here; Blooper 21: Missing Links: It's Back or Nothing; Chapter 4. Form Bloopers

Blooper 22: Making People TypeBlooper 23: Intolerant Data Fields; Blooper 24: No Defaults; Blooper 25: Faulty Defaults; Blooper 26: Compulsory Clicking: No Default Text Input Focus; Blooper 27: Lame Label Placement; Blooper 28: Checkboxes or Radiobuttons; Blooper 29: Looks Editable but Isn't; Blooper 30: Mysterious Controls; Chapter 5. Search Bloopers; Blooper 31: Baffling Search Controls; Blooper 32: Dueling Search Controls; Blooper 33: Hits Look Alike; Blooper 34: Duplicate Hits; Blooper 35: Search Myopia: Missing Relevant Items; Blooper 36: Needle in a Haystack: Piles of Irrelevant Hits

Blooper 37: Hits Sorted UselesslyBlooper 38: Crazy Search Behavior; Blooper 39: Search Terms Not Shown; Blooper 40: Number of Hits Not Revealed; Part III: Bloopers in the Presentation of the Website; Chapter 6. Text and Writing Bloopers; Blooper 41: Too Much Text; Blooper 42: Speaking Geek; Blooper 43: Calling Site Visitors "User"; Blooper 44: Insider Jargon; Blooper 45: Variable Vocabulary: Different Words for the Same Thing; Blooper 46: Inconsistent Style; Blooper 47: Typos and Grammos: Sloppy Writing; Chapter 7. Link Appearance Bloopers; Blooper 48: Links Don't Look Like Links

Blooper 49: Non-Links Look Like LinksBlooper 50: Bizarre Buttons: Click Target Smaller than It Seems; Blooper 51: Wrapped Links: How Many?; Blooper 52: "Click Here": Burying Links in Text; Blooper 53: Been There, Done That? Can't Tell; Chapter 8. Graphic and Layout Bloopers; Blooper 54: Tiny Text; Blooper 55: Camouflaged Text; Blooper 56: Centering Everything; Blooper 57: Unobtrusive Error Messages; Blooper 58: Shades of Beige: Color Differences Too Subtle; Blooper 59: Dead or Alive? Active Buttons Look Inactive; Blooper 60: Terrible Tabs; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-02266-7

9786611022662

0-08-052089-8

OCLC:

476138950