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Web For Disabled Persons

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently released a new set of accessibility guidelines that open the door for disabled persons who use the Web to experience special browser features and multimedia

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Usability Planning Tips

Usability Tips

The focus of a usability test is the user's experience with a site. The site may exist only as a paper prototype, or it may be a real working prototype or a site that has already been launched. The earlier you start to have users try out the site, the faster and easier it will be to develop the site you want.

Develop Prototypes

It is easier for a user to react to an existing example than to theorize what would work best. Useful results can be obtained by building a prototype site, with a minimum of text content and no graphics, for a first round of usability testing. The prototype can then be used to elicit user comments and observe the prototype's ability to lead the users through the tasks they need to perform. It can be built on paper or with simple HTML.

Web Design and Application Usability

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Baraap is known for delivering high-tech solutions. Almost every high-tech system has a user interface component to it. A user centric front-end will allow system administrators, customers and executives to reap maximum benefit from their investement..

Baraap's web designers are experienced in helping our clients create a web presence for their companies. We have helped existing organizations with a face lift of their existing website while working within the confines of an existing brand image and we have also created brand images for organizations that are just beginning or are in need of a new brand image.

What is Usability?

Usability is the measure of the quality of a user's experience when interacting with a product or system - whether a Web site, a software application, mobile technology, or any user-operated device.

Usability is a combination of factors that affect the user's experience with the product or system, including:

• Ease of Learning
• Efficency of Use
• Memorability
• Error Frequency & Severity
• Subjective Satisfaction

Why is Usability Important?

Research by User Interface Engineering, Inc., shows that people cannot find the information they seek on Web sites about 60% of the time. This can lead to wasted time, reduced productivity, increased frustration, and loss of repeat visits and money.

Studies of user behavior on the Web find a low tolerance for difficult designs or slow sites. People don't want to wait. And they don't want to learn how to use a home page. There's no such thing as a training class or a manual for a Web site. People have to be able to grasp the functioning of the site immediately after scanning the home page - for a few seconds at most (Jakob Nielsen).

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For more information regarding our Web Design Practice, call us at 312.673.6431 or email us at sales@baraap.com.