Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.
We aren’t going to discuss the implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design — approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information.
Okay, so I have been changing the layout and design of this blog semi non-stop, since I fired it up not so long ago. I’m still not happy with it - far from it actually - however - as my mind bubbles and brews over what to do, I’ll stick with adding in content.
The full article where the excerpt from above come from can be found over here.
Well worth a read I’d say.
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