| Web Application Design
(Links & Recommendations)
Guidelines, definitions, the design and evaluation process, and navigation
strategies for Web applications.
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Guidelines & Process |
Design Considerations for
Web-based Applications -Luke Wroblewski
This paper outlines a set of guidelines for web-based applications interfaces,
which fuse translated client-application guidelines and re-purposed
Web usability guidelines.
Designing and Evaluating a Web-Based Collaboration Application: A Case
Study -Wenli Zhu
This paper describes the design and evaluation process of a web-based
application and presents results and design solutions in the areas of:
Navigation, browsing vs. editing, providing context and feedback, selection
model, processes and interacting with other applications.
Web-Application
Interface -Microsoft
This set of guidelines covers web-style design, consistency, navigation
design, page design, and design trade-offs.
Designing Web Applications
(PDF) -Hal Shubin & Margaret M. Meehan
This paper discusses several common navigational problems and techniques
for avoiding them in designing Web applications. The focus is on applications
rather than on purely informational sites.
The bull's-eye: A framework for web application user interface design
guidelines. -Betsy Beier & Misha W. Vaughan
Designing
Successful Help for Web Applications (PDF) -Matthew
Ellison
A presentation that discusses the support of web applications through
domain information, task-based procedures, and UI information.
Views
and Forms: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications -Boxes &
Arrows
Creating web applications that support the full and valid completion
of specific tasks, operations, and database transactions, require some
understanding of how to manipulate the medium to that purpose.
Books:
Web
application design handbook: How to design applications for the Web
-Susan Fowler and Victor Stanwick
Early version of an upcoming book on web application design.
Should I use
a drop-down? Four steps for choosing form elements on the Web (PDF)
-Sarah Miller and Caroline Jarrett
From the upcoming book Forms That Work, to be published by
Morgan Kaufmann.
Using
HTML Input Controls to Accurately Capture Users’ Data (PDF)
-Bob Baxely
Sample chapter from Bob Baxely's book: Making
the Web Work –Designing Effective Web Applications. A book
that spends more time on the principles of user interface design than
on in-depth information specific to Web applications.
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Web Application Definitions |
What
We've Learned About Web Application Design (PDF)
-UPA 2002 Panel
The differences between Web sites & Web applications in terms of
presentation style, interaction style, expectations for interface standards,
frequency of use, and more.
What
is a Web Application? -Boxes & Arrows
What distinguishes a web application from a traditional, content-based
website and what are some of the unique design challenges associated
with web applications?
Demonstrating
the Potential of Flash for Web App Design -User Interface Engineering
Talks about Flash's use for a hotel reservation web-based application.
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