INTERFACE DESIGN: User-centered design
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User-centered design
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Users want to get information in the fewest possible steps. This means that you must design an efficient hierarchy of information to minimize steps through menu pages.
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Studies have shown that users prefer menus that present at least five to seven links and that they prefer a few very dense screens of choices to many layers of simplified menus.
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Your interface metaphors should be simple, familiar, and logical — if you need a metaphor for information design, choose a genre familiar to readers of documents, such as a book or a library. Highly unusual, "creative" navigation and home page metaphors always fail because they impose an unfamiliar, unpredictable interface burden on the user.
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The user interface for your Web site should follow the general navigation and layout conventions of major Web sites because your users will already be used to those conventions.
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For maximum functionality and legibility, your page and site design should be built on a consistent pattern of modular units that all share the same basic layout grids, graphic themes, editorial conventions, and hierarchies of organization. The goal is to be consistent and predictable; your users should feel comfortable exploring your site and confident that they can find what they need.
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