Usability Tips for Web Designers

June 23rd, 2009 1:25 am

* Always include a tagline which should be the most obvious element on a web page.
* Implement a 27 characters wide site search and place it on top of your website.
* Don’t use extensive graphics and design elements.
* Include a site map page and register a sitemap XML document in search engines.
* Don’t break a user’s workflow. Allow every action to be canceled if necessary.
* Create easily scannable web content and place the most important information on top of your web page.
* Don’t design graphic elements that looks like a button, but is not.
* Present meaningful feedback and don’t forget that feedback works both ways.
* Use unobtrusive Javascript and graceful degradation.
* Avoid CAPTCHAs, use more usable methods instead.