Research Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines: Printing the Guidelines

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(128 pages, 39.2 MB)

View and Print Guidelines Book by Section

Introduction and Background

Forewords (3 pages, 276 K)
Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Introduction (2 pages, 40 K)
Background and Methodology (2 pages, 48 K)
Includes detailed Strength of Evidence scale
How to Use the Guidelines (2 pages, 44 K)
Includes important considerations for using the Guidelines
Contributors (2 pages, 40 K)

Guidelines by Chapter

Chapter 1 – Design Process and Evaluation (6 pages, 880 K)
Chapter 2 – Optimizing the User Experience (6 pages, 5.3 MB)
Chapter 3 – Accessibility (4 pages, 856 K)
Chapter 4 – Hardware and Software (3 pages, 880 K)
Chapter 5 – The Homepage (5 pages, 4.7 MB)
Chapter 6 – Page Layout (6 pages, 4.6 MB)
Chapter 7 – Navigation (6 pages, 2.7 MB)
Chapter 8 – Scrolling and Paging (3 pages, 508 K)
Chapter 9 – Headings, Titles, and Labels (5 pages, 1.8 MB)
Chapter 10 – Links (8 pages, 3.9 MB)
Chapter 11 – Text Appearance (4 pages, 952 K)
Chapter 12 – Lists (4 pages, 428 K)
Chapter 13 – Screen-based Controls (Widgets) (10 pages, 2.1 MB)
Chapter 14 – Graphics, Images, and Multimedia (7 pages, 972 K)
Chapter 15 – Writing Web Content (5 pages, 2.4 MB)
Chapter 16 – Content Organization (5 pages, 788 K)
Chapter 17 – Search (4 pages, 380 K)

Sources/Bibliographies

Glossary, Indices, and Appendices

Glossary (4 pages, 56 K)
Content Index (7 pages, 52 K)
Author Index (5 pages, 64 K)
Appendices (6 pages, 60 K)
Guidelines ranked by Relative Importance and Strength of Evidence