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Choosing to integrate multimedia into your designs can come with a huge cost: restricting user access to your site, distracting users to the point of departure, or simply crashing their browser. At the same time, interactivity and multimedia elements can be very powerful for conveying information beyond that of text, diagrammatic representations, or static images. [...]

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Once you’ve worked out how to display individual links (e.g., as icons), you need to determine how the navigation as a whole will be displayed. The structure of a site is intimately tied to its presentation. In fact, the perceived structure, established by the way navigation is displayed, can be significantly more important to the [...]

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Online forms are frequently designed in a fashion that makes them both frustrating and downright unusable. Forms should help improve the interaction and level of engagement for users. However, too often forms adopt improper controls (such as drop-down menus and radio buttons), provide the user with inadequate feedback, or simply don’t work. Great progress can [...]

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Questionnaires can be a useful alterative or supplement to task-driven user testing. The following sections describe some alternatives for identifying successful icons to use in your design. A similar set of approaches can be used to test link labels. Interpret Thus Icon Once you have candidate icon designs, you need to know whether your design [...]

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Icon development follows much the same pattern as the processes: mockup, test, and iterate. When developing mockups for your icons, it’s often good to tap your domain experts. It is reasonable to do the first couple of iterations with simple paper-based representations. Later on, as the icons become more refined, you can move to digital [...]

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While icons are not necessary for links, when carefully designed, they can often make the links they identify more prominent, more attractive, more comprehensible, and more memorable. However, when not carefully designed, they can do more harm than good. There are few things more frustrating, for example, than clicking an icon expecting one thing to [...]

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Great typographical layout can make the dullest of designs look clean and professional. This section focuses on the use of lettering and typography as design elements. This means using type for accents and titles and in graphics, rather than as basic body text (for tradeoffs between graphics-based text and HTML text. Good typography relies on [...]

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Color can be effective and powerful but has certain limitations. Technological constraints include the fact that color calibration between monitors is relatively poor, and that colors appear differently on different hardware platforms. In addition, users may be using devices with either black-and-white screens or reduced-color screens. Human constraints include differences in color preferences, in cultural [...]

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Before you get started with the development of your site, determine the approximate scope of the site: How many pages will it have? How many options will there be at each level? How deep will the site go? This will help determine the style of navigation needed. In addition, you should consider how much the [...]

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You need to establish the targeted style, voice, and point of view of your web site. This is particularly crucial when you are working for a client whose organization is not thoroughly familiar to you. The overall style of the site is determined by analyzing information collected from an array of sources. Marketing departments often [...]

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