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Make your site web-worthy. Make it usable.
- 1. Make your site web-worthy. Make it usable! Pieter De Clercq @ Drupalcamp Ghent '09
- 2. Ahoy! Drupalist since 2006 Web applications enthusiast Happy to share some ideas with you
- 3. What is usability? Why should we care? Use cases with explanation.
- 4. What is usability? The elegance and clarity with which the interaction with a web site is designed.
- 5. What is usability? Simple but not easy to accomplish.
- 6. What is usability? Context sensitive.
- 7. Why should we care? More people will use your site!
- 8. Why should we care? A website that's easy to use means happy visitors means returning visitors means word of mouth advertising means ... all we want !
- 9. First use case Jeugdwerknet Youthwork IT Support Portal site Non-profit Flemish
- 10. First use case Jeugdwerknet.be 5.000+ organizations 20.000+ site users 2.000+ offline games events, news, jobs, ...
- 11. First use case Jeugdwerknet.be Free online registration Email address validation and group owner approval are required.
- 12. First use case Registration form problems: People call/mail for help. People fill in wrong form values.
- 13. First use case Let's find out why?
- 14. First use case We only have a fraction of a second to establish one's first impression.
- 16. How much longer? Lay-out mistake? So much text to read... pfft
- 18. This takes too long to read. I'll just skip it. Let's start! Scouting boys Ghent [email_address] Boy Scouts Do I really have to? What's the purpose?
- 19. First use case So, let's try to simplify.
- 21. Alright! One simple form. Or maybe a next step?
- 23. Alright. 3 steps Fill in personal details Link organization Confirm registration Chris De Lange [email_address] Next step
- 24. Scouting boys Ghent First step completed succesfully! One step left and then we're finished.
- 25. First use case Omit text no-one reads. Clarify the process.
- 26. Second use case Drupal help text
- 27. Second use case Drupal 6
- 28. Second use case Drupal 6 The only things I can scan for are the title and the hyperlinks. Which only gives me 'node' and 'content type'. Are those the same? And permissions.
- 29. Second use case How to write for the web?
- 30. Second use case Drupal 7 Use headings Shorten paragraphs Use bold or italic to emphasize something
- 31. Read more Google “web usability”... I follow smashingmagazine.com and usabilityblog.be (dutch).
- 32. Now, go ahead and make your site web-worthy. Make it usable! Pieter De Clercq @ Drupalcamp Ghent '09