Web Design
ENG 330

• Site navigation/usability site of the day from
  : Anthony

Today’s topics are a last look at typography, and site usability, with an emphasis on navigation. Reading for today is Visual Design for the Modern Web Chapter 3.

Here is a summary page of my Top 12 Tips for using type on the Web, and a slide show from Pascal Klein:

Beautiful Web Typography v5.3 Edge of the Web presentation

View more documents from Pascal Klein.

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. And here is a recent interview with Nielsen.
• Comparison of 5 types of navigation devices from Grantastic Designs
• which you can compare to this list of ten devices from jessett.com
• Here’s a series of examples from Lehigh University (Design- Navigation Examples) that show how navigation is thought through.
• A rather amazing study of eyetracking on Web pages from the Poynter Institute (journalism-based). Check out the videos (lower right corner).
• The notoriousWeb Pages That Suck.

One way to put it together is in a checklist I made for Site Assessment

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