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Posted on November 13, 2009

Good User Interface for Quality Design

We have talk about web usability before. Yes we always remember that good web design isn’t always about sophisticated flash or artistic layout. Good web design is the one that give user a good experience. Friendly user interface is a must. Structure is important. Web design must organize the user interface usefully. Put together all the things that related and separate those that are not related. Ease user to browse what they are looking for. Even better, provide shortcut to skip...

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Posted on November 12, 2009

Online Ad, Search Engine Marketing, Web Usability

Landing Page’s Warm Welcome

Not everyone get into our website from direct hits (typing URL at address bar). Some of them may be invited by your ad banner or blasted newsletter. Directing them to the home page could be a good idea. But there’s a better idea. Give them a landing page first. Landing page is a page built specially to welcome visitors that are directed from promotional tool. Landing page should have more strength than home page when it comes to convincing visitor to...

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Posted on November 10, 2009

Web Usability

eCommerce: Think Like Customer

You’re selling your product on the internet. First thing you should do before building an eCommerce site is to think like the customers do. Visit as many eCommerce sites as you can to determine what makes you comfortable and what gives you hard time. You’ll find out that a good one always keep the categorization neat. This way, it’s easier for people to browse through what they are looking for. Easy to find means good user experience, and good user experience...

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Posted on November 9, 2009

Web Usability

Gone in 30 Seconds

There are billions of web pages people can access throughout the internet. What make you think they will spend much time in our pages if they don’t find anything interesting? They won’t stay too long because it’s just one click away to get out of a page to find some more useful pages. Homepage is important. Over-crowded homepage will drive people away. See Google’s homepage. How simple is that. People love it for its simplicity. Once people come in they know...

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Posted on November 6, 2009

Web Usability

New Tab or Same Tab

We always have two choices when putting link in some web page element (or hyperlink inside a text), open the link in same tab or new tab. Many would think opening new page on new tab is better. Think again, because this is very important for web usability. Fewer tabs means cleaner window. People love it that way. Don’t make them angry by adding more and more tab to their browser. You may be worried user won’t focus in seeing one...

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Posted on November 5, 2009

Web Usability

Comfort is A Must

When we’re talking about user experience, the top priority is comfort. Comfortable interface is very important to make people enjoy surfing inside our website. Easy registration, easy login, easy navigation, and other easy things let people walks around comfortably. Your home page is the key. Reveal clearly what your site’s doing at the home page. Let people know why they should go deeper to all your interesting sub pages. But keep it short and simple. Combine attractive image with creative tagline....

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Posted on October 29, 2009

Web Usability

Good Navigation Equals Fun Playground

When people visiting our website, it is very important to make them comfortable surfing inside it. Good Navigation is the key. We’re not only talking about navigation bar. We’re talking about the whole web design. Good navigation can be the result of good web design plus quality web programming. How important does this good navigation anyway? Let’s just put it this way. If people come to your site for the first time, and they can’t find a way to what they...

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Posted on October 19, 2009

Web Design, Web Usability

Your Design is User’s Best Friend

When your time gets too hard, a best friend always makes it easier. It’s like their job, you know. And that’s what makes you feels comfortable having them around. We can always use this concept in our design. Make user feel comfortable so they like to hang around with us. We’ve talk a little bit about web usability before. Now we’ll show you how. First, your logo and site name. It should be everywhere on the site. Not literally every corner....

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Posted on October 15, 2009

Web Usability

Usability Makes Design Complete

“Just make a super excellent web design, and let’s hear all the good things people said about it. Forget the usability testing. That’s just for nerds. Creativity rules!” and that’s the way some designer still thinking. But good design doesn’t work that way. Good design always comes with good web usability. It takes both to give the user great experience. You may think that you have designed a user friendly website, but user who got in the website for the...

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