Thursday, February 24, 2011
Usability
What is usability? Usability is the ease or capable of being used, of a human made object. Those objects could be a website, application or program, a book, a machine, or anything a human interacts with. With usability it can make one create a website, for example, with much ease while saving a lot of time. What I learned from usability was how I can better put together my website and make it look good and comprehensive. The first thing I learned was how to better connect my navigation side of the web page, which meant links to other pages. All links should be of one color or one form so the user can identify what and what not is a link, and where. The link should also respond back to the user for what the link is made for, such as for example the link “home” should return the user back to the home page upon request, meaning the links in a webpage should have consistency. Another factor that I learned was your webpage should be clearly stated so users know where they are and what they can expect from it. Last but not least, a website should always have a contact feedback form so that users can better comment about your website so that you can fix up the little mistakes you make in your webpages.
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Some examples of usability of a webpage could be a very simple and generic layout, with no graphics or rendering, contact forms do not submit user typed info at all, and that its links take you somewhere else that you expected or as it said, or simply the links do not work at all. Examples of a good webpage has the expectation of well working links, and a better site layout at which for the user it is easy to be read and seen.
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