Shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites that are easy to navigate. This book discusses blueprints, wireframes and the role of diagrams in the design phase. It addresses emerging technologies while maintaining its focus on fundamentals.

Written by the author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , this book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. It discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that make unlimited findability possible, and explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society.

Provides insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. This book discusses why people really leave Web sites; making sites usable and accessible; and, surviving executive design whims. It offers help for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing.

Charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world - in which everything has a place - are upended. This book shows how people can reap rewards from the rise of digital knowledge.

A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. This book aims to minimize the complexity of user-centered design for the Web with explanations and illustrations that focus on ideas rather than tools or techniques.

Deals with content and page design, designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities. This book presents a series of principles which show: that web users want to find what they're after quickly; and, that if they don't know what they're after, they want to browse quickly and access information they come across in a logical manner.

Offers advice on creating user-friendly interface designs - whether they're delivered on the Web, a CD, or a smart devices like a cell phone. This book expresses solutions to common UI design problems as a collection of patterns - each one containing concrete examples, recommendations, and warnings.

A guide for those who want to take their Web site(s) to next level and make usability a priority. Through the hundreds of real-world user tests and contemporary Web site critiques, it helps you learn about site design, user experience and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old guidelines and prioritizing usability issues.

A step-by-step guide to explain the process of creating an underlying structure for a web site. Topics covered include: Setting and achieving website goals; translating the site's goals into meaningful content; organizing the content so that visitors can find what they're looking for.

Offers a look at the 'navigation design' aspect of web site development. This book demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology - it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. It offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts.

This text is designed to provide a conceptual framework for understanding how to create and manage content that is to be repurposed for use in different media. It also provides practical solutions to get a handle on content creation, repurposing, efficiency and cross-enterprise management.

The trick to great design is knowing how to think through each decision so that users don't have to. In Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action, Robert Hoekman, Jr., author of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that illustrate how to put good design principles to work on real-world web application interfaces to make them obvious and compelling. From the first ...

This is not another SEO book written for marketing professionals. Between these covers you'll find practical advice and examples for people who build websites aiming to reach their target audience. Each chapter will introduce you to best practices and fresh perspectives on how to accomplish these simple, yet indispensable goals: *Help more people find your site*Help users find content within ...

Offers practical advice about how to achieve the qualities of great Web-based applications and consistently and successfully reproduce them. This work includes principles such as building only whats necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and designing for the activity.

Aims to explain how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to any business need. This book treats web site usability as a preeminent, practical, and realizable business goal, not a buzzword. It examines the spectrum of usability issues, including architecture, navigation, graphical presentation, and page structure.

Explores the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. The book investigates a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification and race classification under apartheid in South Africa.

The gap between designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. This book helps you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've created.

A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design pages with no formal training. This book is the one place they can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help from trusted design instructor Robin Williams. This revised classic--now in ...

Covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers. This work demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness ( findability ) and Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. It also includes techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers.

Defensive design is like defensive driving brought to the Web. Good site defense can make or break the customer experience. This book shows the right (and wrong) ways to get defensive, offers guidelines to prevent errors and rescue customers if a breakdown occurs.It also shows you how to evaluate and improve your own site's defensive design.