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Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose

Autor Dave Lawrence, Soheyla Tavakol
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 dec 2006
Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses traditional strengths of structured, stepped, and iterative approaches to design and implementation, with keeping a sharp focus (throughout a project) on defining and achieving the desired purpose, usability and aesthetic characteristics – which are absolutely essential requirements of any website. The book includes discussions on new perspectives on usability and aesthetics, in the special context of website design.
BWD is suitable for all types of websites, for individual and/or team projects, and useful even for the most experienced of website designers. BWD provides guidance, structure and detailed documentation/process support for the activity of designing and implementing your next website – to help you maximise effectiveness and appropriateness.
This book addresses very practical needs in the extremely complicated area of website design and presents a down-to-earth, strongly structured approach to designing a web-site or teaching web-site design.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781846285189
ISBN-10: 1846285186
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: XVI, 236 p. 47 illus.
Dimensiuni: 210 x 297 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:2007
Editura: SPRINGER LONDON
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Professional/practitioner

Cuprins

Grounding.- Balanced Website Design (BWD): The Context Explained.- The World of Website Design.- Website Usability.- Aesthetics and Websites.- Methodology Process.- Requirements – Initial Acquisition.- Design Needs – Building the Picture.- Designing the Solution.- Creating the Website.- Implementation Issues.- Software Tools.- Website Hosting and Website Management.

Recenzii

From the reviews:
"‘Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches with … the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics.’ … Throughout the book, there are many helpful figures and tables to support the methodology. The structure of the book makes it appropriate for academic use. In addition, practitioners looking for ways to improve or broaden their skills, to serve clients with varying needs and interests, will be interested in reading the book." (M. G. Murphy, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (3), March, 2008)

Notă biografică

Both authors based at Middlesex University.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches with a sharp focus on defining and achieving the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics – absolutely essential requirements for any website. The book includes discussions of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics in the special context of website design.
BWD is suitable for all types of websites, for individual and/or team projects, and should prove to be of significant value for even the most experienced of website designers. BWD provides guidance, structure and detailed documentation/process support for the activity of designing and implementing your next website – helping you to maximise its effectiveness and relevance.
Features:
  • A stepped, iterative, comprehensively structured and easy to follow approach to website design
  • An approach that identifies and balances design needs against specific design ideas across each of the categories of aesthetics, usability and purpose
  • New perspectives on usability and aesthetics
  • Specially designed documentation provided to facilitate and support each process step
  • A methodology that is applicable to all types of website, and to all project scenarios
  • Resource based support via the book’s website (www.springer.com/1-84628-518-6)
Dr. Dave Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in multimedia web technology at Middlesex University, and has been researching in this field for over a decade. The BWD concept and material have been progressively tested in classes over the past five years. Soheyla Tavakol comes from a freelance graphic design background and has been teaching at university level in desktop publishing and digital media for many years.

Caracteristici

Carefully describes a stepped, iterative, comprehensive and easy to follow approach to website design New perspectives on usability and aesthetics (in the context of website design) are discussed Specially designed documentation is provided to support the process The methodology is applicable to all types of website, and designers of all levels of experience Aesthetics, usability and purpose are given a major focus Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras