When you browse a website, intuitively or otherwise, you are judging how easy it is to use site. This post looks at the various factors that contribute to the usability of a website.

I would regard a quality website as a site that provides an excellent user experience for it’s visitors. In this blog, I write about four important steps that are required to define the requirements for such a website before prototyping and development begins.

This post contains an overview of the steps of a user centred design process for any software application. For the purposes of this article, I am using a website as an example. In a previous post, I looked at the principles of usability and usefulness and these steps can help in ensuring that these principles [...]

Usability & Usefulness – two key principles In the design and development of websites, usability and usefulness may appear to be similar terms, but they are related to different aspects of the design and development process. Usefulness is concerned with improving the relevance of the website to the user as they are completing a task, [...]