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@incollection{Lawrence2008balanced, abstract = {Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths oftraditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches and a sharp focus ondefining and achieving the desired characteristics of purpose, usability andaesthetics – absolutely essential requirements for any website. The bookincludes discussions of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics in thespecial context of website design.BWD is suitable for all types of websites, for individual and/or teamprojects, and should prove to be of significant value for even the mostexperienced of website designers. BWD provides guidance, structure anddetailed documentation/process support for the activity of designing andimplementing your next website – helping you maximise its effectiveness andrelevance.Features: * A stepped, iterative, comprehensively structured, and easy to followapproach to website design * An approach that identifies and balances design needs with specific designideas across each of aesthetics, usability and purpose components * New perspectives on usability and aesthetics * Specially designed documentation provided to facilitate and support eachprocess step * A methodology that is applicable to all types of website, and to allproject scenarios * Resource based support via the book's website(www.springer.com/1-84628-518-6)Dr. Dave Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in multimedia web technology atMiddlesex University, and has been researching in this field for over adecade. The BWD concept and material have been progressively tested in classesover the past five years. Soheyla Tavakol comes from a freelance graphicdesign background and has been teaching at university level in desktoppublishing and digital media for many years.}, author = {Lawrence, Dave and Tavakol, Soheyla}, booktitle = {Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose}, chapter = {3}, citeulike-article-id = {5012012}, comment = {Introduce the concept of straight and curved usability. A concession to designs where the experience is not best served by totally straight rule following. People are mostly not constrained by telephone charges for modem dial up so their experience with websites is quite changed. They recommend using groups of users to test the site several times during development. References to Nielsen's heuristics related to developing guidelines for design rather than evaluation of usability}, day = {11}, edition = {illustrated edition}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {1846285186}, keywords = {design, developers, practitioners, usability, website}, month = {December}, pages = {37--58}, posted-at = {2009-06-29 13:10:52}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {Website usability}, year = {2006} }

TY - CHAP ID - Lawrence2008balanced L3 - citeulike-article-id:5012012 N2 - Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths oftraditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches and a sharp focus ondefining and achieving the desired characteristics of purpose, usability andaesthetics – absolutely essential requirements for any website. The bookincludes discussions of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics in thespecial context of website design.BWD is suitable for all types of websites, for individual and/or teamprojects, and should prove to be of significant value for even the mostexperienced of website designers. BWD provides guidance, structure anddetailed documentation/process support for the activity of designing andimplementing your next website – helping you maximise its effectiveness andrelevance.Features: * A stepped, iterative, comprehensively structured, and easy to followapproach to website design * An approach that identifies and balances design needs with specific designideas across each of aesthetics, usability and purpose components * New perspectives on usability and aesthetics * Specially designed documentation provided to facilitate and support eachprocess step * A methodology that is applicable to all types of website, and to allproject scenarios * Resource based support via the book’s website(www.springer.com/1-84628-518-6)Dr. Dave Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in multimedia web technology atMiddlesex University, and has been researching in this field for over adecade. The BWD concept and material have been progressively tested in classesover the past five years. Soheyla Tavakol comes from a freelance graphicdesign background and has been teaching at university level in desktoppublishing and digital media for many years. SN - 1846285186 EP - 58 TI - Website usability PB - Springer T2 - Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose SP - 37 KW - design KW - developers KW - practitioners KW - usability KW - website N1 - Introduce the concept of straight and curved usability. A concession to designs where the experience is not best served by totally straight rule following. People are mostly not constrained by telephone charges for modem dial up so their experience with websites is quite changed. They recommend using groups of users to test the site several times during development. References to Nielsen's heuristics related to developing guidelines for design rather than evaluation of usability AU - Lawrence, Dave AU - Tavakol, Soheyla PY - 2006/12/11/ ER -