Synopses & Reviews
Engaging, Educational, Enjoyable, Erudite: Excellent!--
Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group
Many of the examples are priceless — just reading them made my blood boil with recognition--Howard Tamler, Principal, HT Consulting
Will your web site pass the test? Or will site visitors be gnashing their teeth and shaking their fists? Will any customers ever come back to your site? Save yourself the embarrassment and don't be caught with your Web Bloopers showing. Read this book and find out now if your web site commits any heinous bloopers.
This book is not just about how to make web sites pretty, nor is it just another tirade about what is wrong with the web. It goes in-depth and grapples with challenging usability issues at the heart of many web bloopers. It offers solid sound advice on avoiding or fixing these problems. It is written with a sense of humor and is sprinkled with relevant cartoons along with numerous screen images illustrating the problems and their solutions. Reading this book will help make your web sites better.
Features:
* Discusses in detail 60 of the most common and critical web design mistakes, along with the solutions, challenges, and tradeoffs associated with them.
* Covers important subject areas such as: content, task-support, navigation, forms, searches, writing, link appearance, and graphic design and layout.
* Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability test performed by web designers themselves.
* Features it's own web site (www.web-bloopers.com)with new and emerging web design no-no's (because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use.
Review
Engaging, Educational, Enjoyable, Erudite: Excellent!
--Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group
"If you get paid to develop a Website, you should have this book...I high recommend this one." Jessica Sant, Reporter, JavaRanch.com, July 2nd, 2003
"An artifact of the Information Age, the oldest Web page still operating on the Internet, is among the nuggests of gigabyte gold in Jeff Johnson's new book, Web Bloopers." Chicago Tribune, May 10th, 2003
Synopsis
The dot.com crash of 2000 was a wake-up call, and told us that the Web has far to go before achieving the acceptance predicted for it in '95. A large part of what is missing is quality; a primary component of the missing quality is usability. The Web is not nearly as easy to use as it needs to be for the average person to rely on it for everyday information, commerce, and entertainment.
In response to strong feedback from readers of GUI BLOOPERS calling for a book devoted exclusively to Web design bloopers, Jeff Johnson calls attention to the most frequently occurring and annoying design bloopers from real web sites he has worked on or researched. Not just a critique of these bloopers and their sites, this book shows how to correct or avoid the blooper and gives a detailed analysis of each design problem.
Hear Jeff Johnson's interview podcast on software and website usability at the University of Canterbury (25 min.)
* Discusses in detail 60 of the most common and critical web design mistakes, along with the solutions, challenges, and tradeoffs associated with them.
* Covers important subject areas such as: content, task-support, navigation, forms, searches, writing, link appearance, and graphic design and layout.
* Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability test performed by web designers themselves.
* Features its own web site (www.web-bloopers.com)with new and emerging web design no-no's (because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use.
Synopsis
Will your website pass the test? Or will site visitors be gnashing their teeth and shaking their fists? Will any customers ever ome back to your site? Save yourself the embarrassment of being caught with your Web bloopers showing. Read this book and find out now if your website commits any heinous bloopers.
Web Bloopersis not just about how to make websites pretty, and it's not just another tirade about what is wrong with the Web. It goes in depth and grapples with challenging usability issues at the heart of many web bloopers. It offers solid and sound advice on avoiding or fixing these problems. It is written with a sense of humor and is sprinkled with relevant cartoons and numerous screen images illustrating problems and solutions. Reading this book will help you make your websites better.
Synopsis
designers themselves.
* Features it's own web site (www.web-bloopers.com)with new and emerging web design no-no's (because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use.
Synopsis
und advice on avoiding or fixing these problems. It is written with a sense of humor and is sprinkled with relevant cartoons along with numerous screen images illustrating the problems and their solutions. Reading this book will help make your web sites better.
Features:
* Discusses in detail 60 of the most common and critical web design mistakes, along with the solutions, challenges, and tradeoffs associated with them.
* Covers important subject areas such as: content, task-support, navigation, forms, searches, writing, link appearance, and graphic design and layout.
* Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability test performed by web designers themselves.
* Features it's own web site (www.web-bloopers.com)with new and emerging web design no-no's (because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use.
Synopsis
The dot.com crash of 2000 was a wake-up call, and told us that the Web has far to go before achieving the acceptance predicted for it in '95. A large part of what is missing is quality; a primary component of the missing quality is usability. The Web is not nearly as easy to use as it needs to be for the average person to rely on it for everyday information, commerce, and entertainment.
In response to strong feedback from readers of GUI BLOOPERS calling for a book devoted exclusively to Web design bloopers, Jeff Johnson calls attention to the most frequently occurring and annoying design bloopers from real web sites he has worked on or researched. Not just a critique of these bloopers and their sites, this book shows how to correct or avoid the blooper and gives a detailed analysis of each design problem.
* Discusses in detail 60 of the most common and critical web design mistakes, along with the solutions, challenges, and tradeoffs associated with them.
* Covers important subject areas such as: content, task-support, navigation, forms, searches, writing, link appearance, and graphic design and layout.
* Organized and formatted based on the results of its own usability test performed by web designers themselves.
* Features its own web site (www.web-bloopers.com)with new and emerging web design no-no's (because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use.
Synopsis
eb site (www.web-bloopers.com)with new and emerging web design no-no's (because new bloopers are born every day) along with a much requested printable blooper checklist for web designers and developers to use.
About the Author
Jeff Johnson is president and principal consultant at UI Wizards, Inc., a product usability consulting firm (<>). He has worked in the field of Human-Computer Interaction since 1978--as software designer and implementer, usability tester, manager, researcher at several computer and telecommunications companies, and consultant. In the course of his career, he has written many articles, cowritten several books, and given numerous presentations on a variety of topics in Human-Computer Interaction.
Ph.D., Founder, UI Wizards, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Bloopers in the Content and Functionality of the Website
Chapter 1 — Content Bloopers
Chapter 2 — Task-Support Bloopers
Part II: Bloopers in the User Interface of the Website
Chapter 3 — Navigation Bloopers
Chapter 4 — Form Bloopers
Chapter 5 — Search Bloopers
Part III: Bloopers in the Presentation of the Website
Chapter 6 — Text & Writing Bloopers
Chapter 7 — Link Appearance Bloopers
Chapter 8 — Graphic and Layout Bloopers
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
About the Author