Web bloopers : 60 common web design mistakes, and how to avoid them

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Auteur:

Johnson, Jeff, Ph. D.

Informations de publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann ; Oxford : Elsevier Science, c2003.

Format de document:

Livres

Description matérielle:

329 p. : ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.

Terme de vedette-matière:

Web sites -- Design.

Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):

9781558608405

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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 design bloopers from real web sites he has worked on or researched. Not just a critique of these bloopers and their sites, this book shows how to correct or avoid the blooper and gives a detailed analysis of each design problem.

Hear Jeff Johnson's interview podcast on software and website usability at the University of Canterbury (25 min.)

Table des matières

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Part I Bloopers in the Content and Functionality of the Website	p. 11
Chapter 1 Content Bloopers	p. 13
Blooper 1 Home Page Identity Crisis	p. 14
Blooper 2 Confusing Classifications	p. 19
Blooper 3 Unhelpful Descriptions	p. 24
Blooper 4 Conflicting Content	p. 28
Blooper 5 Outdated Content	p. 32
Blooper 6 Missing or Useless Content	p. 35
Blooper 7 Unfinished Content	p. 37
Chapter 2 Task-Support Bloopers	p. 43
Blooper 8 Redundant Requests	p. 44
Blooper 9 Requiring Unneeded Data	p. 52
Blooper 10 Pointless Choice	p. 57
Blooper 11 Omitting Important Options	p. 62
Blooper 12 Clueless Back-end	p. 68
Blooper 13 Dead-end Paths: Now You Tell Me!	p. 72
Blooper 14 Agonizing Task Flow	p. 73
Part II Bloopers in the User Interface of the Website	p. 81
Chapter 3 Navigation Bloopers	p. 83
Blooper 15 Site Reflects Organizational Chart	p. 84
Blooper 16 Numerous Navigation Schemes	p. 89
Blooper 17 Deceptive Duplicate Links	p. 93
Blooper 18 Not Linking Directly	p. 102
Blooper 19 Lost in Space: Current Page Not Indicated	p. 107
Blooper 20 The Circle Game: Active Link to Here	p. 112
Blooper 21 Missing Links: It's Back or Nothing	p. 116
Chapter 4 Form Bloopers	p. 121
Blooper 22 Making People Type	p. 122
Blooper 23 Intolerant Data Fields	p. 124
Blooper 24 No Defaults	p. 128
Blooper 25 Faulty Defaults	p. 136
Blooper 26 Compulsory Clicking: No Default Text Input Focus	p. 139
Blooper 27 Lame Label Placement	p. 142
Blooper 28 Checkboxes or Radiobuttons	p. 146
Blooper 29 Looks Editable but Isn't	p. 149
Blooper 30 Mysterious Controls	p. 151
Chapter 5 Search Bloopers	p. 159
Blooper 31 Baffling Search Controls	p. 161
Blooper 32 Dueling Search Controls	p. 167
Blooper 33 Hits Look Alike	p. 170
Blooper 34 Duplicate Hits	p. 174
Blooper 35 Search Myopia: Missing Relevant Items	p. 175
Blooper 36 Needle in a Haystack: Piles of Irrelevant Hits	p. 178
Blooper 37 Hits Sorted Uselessly	p. 182
Blooper 38 Crazy Search Behavior	p. 185
Blooper 39 Search Terms Not Shown	p. 189
Blooper 40 Number of Hits Not Revealed	p. 190
Part III Bloopers in the Presentation of the Website	p. 193
Chapter 6 Text and Writing Bloopers	p. 195
Blooper 41 Too Much Text	p. 196
Blooper 42 Speaking Geek	p. 199
Blooper 43 Calling Site Visitors "User"	p. 207
Blooper 44 Insider Jargon	p. 209
Blooper 45 Variable Vocabulary: Different Words for the Same Thing	p. 213
Blooper 46 Inconsistent Style	p. 214
Blooper 47 Typos and Grammos: Sloppy Writing	p. 217
Chapter 7 Link Appearance Bloopers	p. 221
Blooper 48 Links Don't Look Like Links	p. 222
Blooper 49 Non-Links Look Like Links	p. 226
Blooper 50 Bizarre Buttons: Click Target Smaller than It Seems	p. 230
Blooper 51 Wrapped Links: How Many?	p. 234
Blooper 52 "Click Here": Burying Links in Text	p. 236
Blooper 53 Been There, Done That? Can't Tell	p. 240
Chapter 8 Graphic and Layout Bloopers	p. 245
Blooper 54 Tiny Text	p. 246
Blooper 55 Camouflaged Text	p. 255
Blooper 56 Centering Everything	p. 257
Blooper 57 Unobtrusive Error Messages	p. 260
Blooper 58 Shades of Beige: Color Differences Too Subtle	p. 265
Blooper 59 Dead or Alive? Active Buttons Look Inactive	p. 268
Blooper 60 Terrible Tabs	p. 273
Epilogue	p. 279
Appendices	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 309
Index	p. 313
About the Author	p. 329

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