Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience:: Methodologies and Principles

The editors (National and Kapodistrian U. of Athens) of this collection believe advances in ICT have complicated modern applications and their interfaces, making web systems difficult to use, and suggest usability methods for web development based on inquiry, prototyping, inspection, and testing. The opening chapters examine the reasons advances in usability research do not find their way into the web industry and offer examples of successful user-centered design methods. Other topics of the 18 chapters include intelligent web tools for the literacy of deaf people, a theoretical framework measuring the usability of retail sites, the influence of e-commerce website colors on usability, and multiple-user simultaneous testing studies. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)