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Web Usability Made Simple

Improve your website usability with these 34 easy to understand, commonly violated, and easy to implement guidelines.
Rating: 4.2 out of 54.2 (28 ratings)
403 students
Created by Deborah J. Mayhew
Last updated 12/2013
English
English [Auto]
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What you'll learn

  • Upon completing this course, you will be able to apply 34 basic guidelines for achieving usability to your website user interface design
  • In this course, you will learn a basic subset of all available guidelines for website usability, selected for inclusion in this introductory course because they are universal, easy to explain, commonly violated, high impact and easy to implement

Requirements

  • Nothing beyond experience using websites and an interest in the topic are required to take and learn valuable lessons from this course

Description

D15 from a comprehensive curriculum on User eXperience (UX) currently under development at The Online User eXperience Institute (OUXI).

This course is one of a track of courses aimed at small web business owners, students and developers/designers with little or no prior training in software/web usability.

Before you attend this course, we recommend that you take the free, 30 minute course called "Introduction to Web and eCommerce User eXperience Design". As well as providing a high level overview for this and other related courses from the same OUXI curriculum training track, it will explain how the small fees you invest in these courses could pay off in thousands of dollars in increased revenues from your ecommerce website.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course addresses one of three key aspects of the User eXperience of eCommerce and other websites: usability (other courses in the OUXI curriculum will address designing for persuasion and graphic design).

The course is very concrete, a "how-to" course offering clear, actionable guidelines and hands-on exercises. These website usability guidelines are not based on subjective opinion - they have all been well established by rigorous, published research from disciplines such as cognitive science and computer-human interaction. Each guideline is fully explained and generously illustrated with many examples from real websites.

The 34 design guidelines offered were selected from the full body of knowledge on web usability to be: universal (i.e., applicable to any and all websites), easy to explain, commonly violated, high impact, and easy to implement. They represent the "low-hanging fruit" in designing for web usability.

With nothing beyond these 34 key guidelines, anyone should be able to realize major improvements in the usability of their website, which will contribute measurably to the success of the site in meeting its business goals.

COURSE FORMAT

The course format is a Powerpoint presentation accompanied by a studio-recorded video lecture, broken up into chapters and lectures.

Downloadable course materials include the full Powerpoint presentation in two formats - full slides, and two slides per page - and an actionable, Excel-based guidelines checklist that can be used as you apply your new skills to real web projects.

The course includes about 3 hours of lecture, and roughly 1.5 - 2 hours of hands-on exercises.

Both quick (a couple of minutes) and more comprehensive (roughly 45 minutes) optional hands-on exercises, followed by sample exercise solutions, help reinforce your understanding of the guidelines.

Your registration for this course entitles you to 30 minutes of "office hours" with the instructor via email. You can email questions to the instructor and receive personal responses. Send email to drdeb@ouxinstitute.com with "OUXI D15" in the subject line.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is aimed at small web business owners, students and developers/designers with little or no prior training in software and website usability

Course content

7 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 30m total length

  • Preview00:07

  • Preview05:19
  • Preview01:25

  • Preview01:49
  • Preview05:30
  • "Usability"
    03:31
  • Anatomy of a User Interface
    09:49

  • Guidelines 1-3: Structure of Navigation
    09:49
  • Guidelines 4-6: Structure of Navigation
    08:51
  • Exercise One: Structure of Navigation
    03:47
  • Exercise One Solution: Structure of Navigation
    04:47

  • Guidelines 7-8: Design of Navigation
    08:53
  • Guidelines 9-10: Design of Navigation
    09:04
  • Guidelines 11-12: Design of Navigation
    05:18
  • Guidelines 13-15: Design of Navigation
    06:32
  • Guidelines 16-17: Design of Navigation
    04:06
  • Guideline 18: Design of Navigation
    06:13
  • Exercise Two: Design of Navigation
    02:57
  • Exercise Two Solution: Design of Navigation
    04:21

  • Guidelines 19-20: Design of Page Content
    04:58
  • Guidelines 21-24: Design of Page Content
    05:49
  • Guidelines 25-28: Design of Page Content
    13:04
  • Guidelines 29-34: Design of Page Content
    09:29
  • Exercise Three: Design of Page Content
    03:27
  • Exercise Three Solution: Design of Page Content
    03:03

  • Summary
    07:00
  • Infrequently Asked Questions: Answers
    01:07

Instructor

Deborah J. Mayhew
Internationally recognized consultant, author, and teacher
Deborah J. Mayhew
  • 4.0 Instructor Rating
  • 2,524 Reviews
  • 39,365 Students
  • 3 Courses

Deborah J. Mayhew, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of The Online User eXperience Institute (OUXI) is an internationally recognized consultant, author, teacher and speaker on engineering and designing for the User eXperience.

Deborah was one of the earliest pioneers of the field of software and web user experience. She has been Owner and Principal Consultant at Deborah J. Mayhew & Associates, a consulting firm offering a wide variety of services related to designing and engineering for the User eXperience, since 1986, when she became one of the first independent consultants in her field. 

Deborah's clients have included IBM, AT&T, The World Bank, Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor Company, American Express, The New York City Police Department, Apple Computer, American Airlines, Texas Instruments, NASA, JP Morgan Chase, The National Cancer Institute, Computer Science Corporation, Siemens, Cisco Systems, the IRS and many others.  Deborah has designed user experiences not only for web sites, but also for traditional desktop software applications, medical technology, scientific instruments, and robots.  She has taught courses in many of her client organizations as well as at many professional conferences.

Deborah holds a B. A. in Psychology from Brown University, an M. A. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Denver and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Tufts University. She has authored or co-authored four books on topics in User eXperience engineering, and has contributed chapters to many other books in the field. One popular book is The Usability Engineering Lifecycle. Another recent book is Cost Justifying Usability: An Update for the Internet Age, co-edited with Randolph G. Bias.

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