Overview
- 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
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Methodology Process
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Implementation Issues
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About this book
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.
Reviews
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)
Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Balanced Website Design
Book Subtitle: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose
Authors: Dave Lawrence, Soheyla Tavakol
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-795-4
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84628-518-9Published: 11 December 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-795-4Published: 18 December 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 236
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computer Applications, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Media Design, Innovation/Technology Management, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computer Communication Networks