Johnson Web Bloopers

60 Common Web Design Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-08-052089-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Web PDF

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.)

* 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 its own web site (www.web-bloopers.com)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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Jeff

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Web Bloopers;2
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Contents;6
5;Foreword;8
6;Acknowledgments;10
7;Introduction;12
8;Part I: Bloopers in the Content and Functionality of the Website;22
8.1;Chapter 1. Content Bloopers;24
8.1.1;Blooper 1: Home Page Identity Crisis;25
8.1.2;Blooper 2: Confusing Classifications;30
8.1.3;Blooper 3: Unhelpful Descriptions;35
8.1.4;Blooper 4: Conflicting Content;39
8.1.5;Blooper 5: Outdated Content;43
8.1.6;Blooper 6: Missing or Useless Content;46
8.1.7;Blooper 7: Unfinished Content;48
8.2;Chapter 2. Task-Support Bloopers;54
8.2.1;Blooper 8: Redundant Requests;55
8.2.2;Blooper 9: Requiring Unneeded Data;63
8.2.3;Blooper 10: Pointless Choice;68
8.2.4;Blooper 11: Omitting Important Options;73
8.2.5;Blooper 12: Clueless Back-end;79
8.2.6;Blooper 13: Dead-end Paths: Now You Tell Me!;83
8.2.7;Blooper 14: Agonizing Task Flow;84
9;Part II: Bloopers in the User Interface of the Website;92
9.1;Chapter 3. Navigation Bloopers;94
9.1.1;Blooper 15: Site Reflects Organizational Chart;95
9.1.2;Blooper 16: Numerous Navigation Schemes;100
9.1.3;Blooper 17: Deceptive Duplicate Links;104
9.1.4;Blooper 18: Not Linking Directly;113
9.1.5;Blooper 19: Lost in Space: Current Page Not Indicated;118
9.1.6;Blooper 20: The Circle Game: Active Link to Here;123
9.1.7;Blooper 21: Missing Links: It’s Back or Nothing;127
9.2;Chapter 4. Form Bloopers;132
9.2.1;Blooper 22: Making People Type;133
9.2.2;Blooper 23: Intolerant Data Fields;135
9.2.3;Blooper 24: No Defaults;139
9.2.4;Blooper 25: Faulty Defaults;147
9.2.5;Blooper 26: Compulsory Clicking: No Default Text Input Focus;150
9.2.6;Blooper 27: Lame Label Placement;153
9.2.7;Blooper 28: Checkboxes or Radiobuttons;157
9.2.8;Blooper 29: Looks Editable but Isn’t;160
9.2.9;Blooper 30: Mysterious Controls;162
9.3;Chapter 5. Search Bloopers;170
9.3.1;Blooper 31: Baffling Search Controls;172
9.3.2;Blooper 32: Dueling Search Controls;178
9.3.3;Blooper 33: Hits Look Alike;181
9.3.4;Blooper 34: Duplicate Hits;185
9.3.5;Blooper 35: Search Myopia: Missing Relevant Items;186
9.3.6;Blooper 36: Needle in a Haystack: Piles of Irrelevant Hits;189
9.3.7;Blooper 37: Hits Sorted Uselessly;193
9.3.8;Blooper 38: Crazy Search Behavior;196
9.3.9;Blooper 39: Search Terms Not Shown;200
9.3.10;Blooper 40: Number of Hits Not Revealed;201
10;Part III: Bloopers in the Presentation of the Website;204
10.1;Chapter 6. Text and Writing Bloopers;206
10.1.1;Blooper 41: Too Much Text;207
10.1.2;Blooper 42: Speaking Geek;210
10.1.3;Blooper 43: Calling Site Visitors “User”;218
10.1.4;Blooper 44: Insider Jargon;220
10.1.5;Blooper 45: Variable Vocabulary: Different Words for the Same Thing;224
10.1.6;Blooper 46: Inconsistent Style;225
10.1.7;Blooper 47: Typos and Grammos: Sloppy Writing;228
10.2;Chapter 7. Link Appearance Bloopers;232
10.2.1;Blooper 48: Links Don’t Look Like Links;233
10.2.2;Blooper 49: Non-Links Look Like Links;237
10.2.3;Blooper 50: Bizarre Buttons: Click Target Smaller than It Seems;241
10.2.4;Blooper 51: Wrapped Links: How Many?;245
10.2.5;Blooper 52: “Click Here”: Burying Links in Text;247
10.2.6;Blooper 53: Been There, Done That? Can’t Tell;251
10.3;Chapter 8. Graphic and Layout Bloopers;256
10.3.1;Blooper 54: Tiny Text;257
10.3.2;Blooper 55: Camouflaged Text;266
10.3.3;Blooper 56: Centering Everything;268
10.3.4;Blooper 57: Unobtrusive Error Messages;271
10.3.5;Blooper 58: Shades of Beige: Color Differences Too Subtle;276
10.3.6;Blooper 59: Dead or Alive? Active Buttons Look Inactive;279
10.3.7;Blooper 60: Terrible Tabs;284
11;Epilogue;290
12;Appendices;292
13;Bibliography;320
14;Index;324
15;About the author;340