Web usability guidelines
247 web usability guidelines

                
            
            
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Web usability guidelines

			Home page usability: 20 guidelines to evaluate the usability of home pages.
				Task orientation: 44 guidelines to evaluate how well a web site supports the users tasks.
				Navigation and IA: 29 guidelines to evaluate navigation and information architecture.
				Forms and data entry: 23 guidelines to evaluate forms and data entry.
				Trust and credibility: 13 guidelines to evaluate trust and credibility.
				Writing and content quality: 23 guidelines to evaluate writing and content quality.
				Page layout and visual design: 38 guidelines to evaluate page layout and visual design.
				Search usability: 20 guidelines to evaluate search.
				Help, feedback and error tolerance: 37 guidelines to evaluate help, feedback and error tolerance.

      

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              How to use these guidelines
              Work through each of the guidelines in each list and mark your site as either conforming or not conforming to the guideline.
              Remember that all guidelines are context specific. If you feel that a guideline does not apply to your site, it's OK to ignore it.
              The guidelines are purposefully expressed as positive statements, so that when you feed the results back to the design team you can identify some strengths of the design before you launch into the problems.
             
              And remember that guidelines can get you only so far. Nothing replaces a good design process.

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