Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose - Softcover

Lawrence, Dave

 
9781846285189: Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1846285186 ISBN 13: 9781846285189
Verlag: Springer London, 2010

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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.

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Both authors based at Middlesex University.

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Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches with a sharp focus on defining and achieving the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics – absolutely essential requirements for any website. The book includes discussions of 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 should prove to be of significant value for even 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 – helping you to maximise its effectiveness and relevance.

Features:

  • A stepped, iterative, comprehensively structured and easy to follow approach to website design

  • An approach that identifies and balances design needs against specific design ideas across each of the categories of aesthetics, usability and purpose

  • New perspectives on usability and aesthetics

  • Specially designed documentation provided to facilitate and support each process step

  • A methodology that is applicable to all types of website, and to all project scenarios

  • Resource based support via the book’s website (www.springer.com/1-84628-518-6)

Dr. Dave Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in multimedia web technology at Middlesex University, and has been researching in this field for over a decade. The BWD concept and material have been progressively tested in classes over the past five years. Soheyla Tavakol comes from a freelance graphic design background and has been teaching at university level in desktop publishing and digital media for many years.

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Verlag
Springer London
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1846285186
ISBN 13 
9781846285189
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
252
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