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Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them View Larger Image | Jeff Johnson
Morgan Kaufmann, Paperback, Published April 2003, 327 pages, ISBN 1558608400 | List Price: $63.95
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- Discusses in detail 60 of the most common and critical web design mistakes,
along with the solutions, challenges, and tradeoffs associated with them.
- Covers important subject areas such as: content, task-support, navigation,
forms, searches, writing, link appearance, and graphic design and layout.
- Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability test
performed by web designers themselves.
- Features it's own web site with new and emerging web design no-no's
(because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable
blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use.
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Bloopers in the Content and Functionality of the Website
Chapter 1 — Content Bloopers
Chapter 2 —Task-Support Bloopers
Part II: Bloopers in the User Interface of the Website
Chapter 3 — Navigation Bloopers
Chapter 4 —Form Bloopers
Chapter 5 — Search Bloopers
Part III: Bloopers in the Presentation of the Website
Chapter 6 — Text & Writing Bloopers
Chapter 7 — Link Appearance Bloopers
Chapter 8 — Graphic Design & Layout Bloopers
Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendices
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Apr 13, 2005 Andre Gous from Fallon, NV, USA
Learning about Usability while having fun
I saw the author's presentation at SD West 05, and that made me even more interested in reading this book. Jeff obviously understands the material very well, and he explains the issues eloquently. Fortunately, his book is at least as impressive as his verbal presentation.
As a Web/database developer (and small business owner) I have been steadily working my way through his "Web Bloopers" book. It's great stuff, and I enjoy reading it slowly and carefully pondering each issue. The more I read, the more I realize how desperately my own company's Web site needs to be improved.
One of my clients is tasked with improving an intranet site at a large Bay area computer company, and I've just recommended this book to the client. If the senior stakeholders read the book, it's likely to greatly the odds of project success.
Many IT-related books have good ideas. What makes Jeff's book so special is that he makes the learning process so enjoyable, with his interesting and funny real-world examples.
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