Web usability course objectives

Help you to understand usability's importance and basic principles.
Help you to assess your web site's usability and to avoid the worst mistakes.
Show you where to get further information about web site usability.

Written by Philip Chalmers who is based in the Medway area of Kent, England, United Kingdom.

Help you to understand the importance of usability

We hope the first page did that - visitors can leave your site at any time.

Help you to understand the basic principles of usability

To assess whether your current or planned site is inviting to visitors.

To develop ideas for making it better.

To avoid the worst mistakes.

Show you where you can get further information

This is an introductory course, not a degree course - and your users' needs and expectations will change in the course of time.

There's a lot of information about usability on the Web - some of it quite usable.

This course will not ...

Make you an instant usability expert.

Teach you any technical design tricks - except perhaps incidentally.

Teach you how to use any design or development tools.

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