Jakob Nielsen

"How do we design the best websites and apps for today's smart phone and tablet users ? Best-selling author Jakob Nielsen and coauthor Raluca Budiu offer their key insights into developing a mobile strategy for your client or business and designing and writing for small screens. Their user-data based approach will help designers, software developers, writers, editors, product managers, and advertisers understand how to create mobile websites and apps for their customers and improve user experience with an eye toward the future of mobile use." -- From publisher description.

The last few years have seen the emergence of usability inspection (UI) as an important new tool to help user interface designers and software developers guarantee that their products meet the highest standards of usability. Everywhere UI methods have been implemented they have proven to be faster, cheaper, and in many regards, more reliable than user testing and other standard approaches to ensuring design usability. Usability Inspection Methods is the first comprehensive, book-length work in this rapidly growing field. Coedited by Jakob Nielsen, the man who coined the term "usability inspection," it offers readers the unique opportunity to learn state-of-the-art UI methods from the women and men who developed them. Designed to get readers quickly up and running with the full complement of UI strategies, tools, and techniques, this extremely practical guide offers step-by-step guidance to all important methods now in use, in chapters authored by the methods' inventors themselves. Following a detailed overview of the field is a series of chapters devoted to detailed descriptions of the heuristic evaluation method, the pluralistic walk-through method, the cognitive walk-through method, techniques for integrating formal usability inspections with other methods into a coherent framework, and other proven UI methods. Each chapter in this section includes reports on the valuable empirical evidence of the benefits of the method covered. Later chapters offer numerous case studies, and a comparative analysis of UI with user testing, as well as a thorough breakdown of the cost-benefit characteristics of UI as compared to other approaches, several UI program prototypes providing computer support for interface designers, and much more. Authoritative, timely, and offering a wealth of hands-on instruction on all important methods and techniques, Usability Inspection Methods is an indispensable resource for user interface developers and software designers, as well as graduate students and researchers specializing in interfaces.

Based on one of the largest studies of eyetracking usability in existence used rigorous methodology and eyetracking technology to analyze 1.5 million instances where users look at Web sites. Their findings will help designers, software developers, writers, editors, product managers, and advertisers understand how the human eyes interact with Web sites and what will significantly improve user experience.-- Publisher info.

A guide to designing for the Web critiques existing Web sites including Amazon.com, Yahoo.com, MTV.com, Drugstore.com, and NewsNow.co.uk, and suggests simple solutions for improving site usability.

This is the eBook version of the printed book.In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world's leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the Web—Designing Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is back and has revisited his classic guide, joined forces with Web usability consultant Hoa Loranger, and created an updated companion book that covers the essential changes to the Web and usability today. Prioritizing Web Usability is the guide for anyone who wants to take their Web site(s) to next level and make usability a priority! Through the authors' wisdom, experience, and hundreds of real-world user tests and contemporary Web site critiques, you'll learn about site design, user experience and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old guidelines and prioritizing usability issues, page design and layout, content design, and more!