Web Design and Development
ENG 330

• Site navigation/usability site of the day from (Section 21)
  : Charma and Jeff
• Site navigation/usability site of the day from (Section A)
  : Christina
  Today’s topics are a last look at typography, and site usability, with an emphasis on navigation. Reading for today is Non-Designer’s Book Chapter 7.

  Here is a summary page of my Top 12 Tips for using type on the Web.

  Some navigation resources:

  • One way to define what Usability means is to look at the Table of Contents from Jakob Nielsen’s Designing Web Usability
  • Something related from Web Developer’s Virtual Library
  • Comparison of 5 types of navigation devices from Grantastic Designs
  • which you can compare to this list of ten devices from jessett.com
  • A discussion of site structure from the Yale design group (Patrick Lynch).
  • Here’s a series of examples from Lehigh University (Design- Navigation Examples) that show how navigation is thought through.
  • The notoriousWeb Pages That Suck.

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