Discover 34 easy-to-follow guidelines for improving website usability in our friendly UX course designed for beginners!
This course is all about making your website better for users. With 34 easy guidelines and fun exercises, you'll learn how to seriously up your web game!
Improve your website usability with these 34 easy to understand, commonly violated, and easy to implement guidelines.
D15 from a comprehensive curriculum on User eXperience (UX) currently under development at The Online User eXperience Institute (OUXI).
This course is one of a track of courses aimed at small web business owners, students and developers/designers with little or no prior training in software/web usability.
Before you attend this course, we recommend that you take the free, 30 minute course called "Introduction to Web and eCommerce User eXperience Design". As well as providing a high level overview for this and other related courses from the same OUXI curriculum training track, it will explain how the small fees you invest in these courses could pay off in thousands of dollars in increased revenues from your ecommerce website.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course addresses one of three key aspects of the User eXperience of eCommerce and other websites: usability (other courses in the OUXI curriculum will address designing for persuasion and graphic design).
The course is very concrete, a "how-to" course offering clear, actionable guidelines and hands-on exercises. These website usability guidelines are not based on subjective opinion - they have all been well established by rigorous, published research from disciplines such as cognitive science and computer-human interaction. Each guideline is fully explained and generously illustrated with many examples from real websites.
The 34 design guidelines offered were selected from the full body of knowledge on web usability to be: universal (i.e., applicable to any and all websites), easy to explain, commonly violated, high impact, and easy to implement. They represent the "low-hanging fruit" in designing for web usability.
With nothing beyond these 34 key guidelines, anyone should be able to realize major improvements in the usability of their website, which will contribute measurably to the success of the site in meeting its business goals.
COURSE FORMAT
The course format is a Powerpoint presentation accompanied by a studio-recorded video lecture, broken up into chapters and lectures.
Downloadable course materials include the full Powerpoint presentation in two formats - full slides, and two slides per page - and an actionable, Excel-based guidelines checklist that can be used as you apply your new skills to real web projects.
The course includes about 3 hours of lecture, and roughly 1.5 - 2 hours of hands-on exercises.
Both quick (a couple of minutes) and more comprehensive (roughly 45 minutes) optional hands-on exercises, followed by sample exercise solutions, help reinforce your understanding of the guidelines.
Your registration for this course entitles you to 30 minutes of "office hours" with the instructor via email. You can email questions to the instructor and receive personal responses. Send email to drdeb@ouxinstitute.com with "OUXI D15" in the subject line.
Upon completing this course, you will be able to apply 34 basic guidelines for achieving usability to your website user interface design
In this course, you will learn a basic subset of all available guidelines for website usability, selected for inclusion in this introductory course because they are universal, easy to explain, commonly violated, high impact and easy to implement
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Deborah J. Mayhew, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of The Online User eXperience Institute (OUXI) is an internationally recognized consultant, author, teacher and speaker on engineering and designing for the User eXperience. Deborah was one of the earliest pioneers of the field of software and web user experience. She has been Owner and Principal Consultant at Deborah J. Mayhew & Associates,...
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somehow not very engaged so i didnt finish the course.
This course provides an excellent overview of the topic and gives clear and direct advice on the tricks that make a website usable. Very applicable, well structured and pleasant to view.
First of all, the audio and video are clear and of good quality. The content is accurate (I have taken similar courses), but in this course it is being presented very simplified and at a basic level. Throughout the course there are a lot of examples; actually the whole course is built on examples, so don't worry about plain theory. It is a very good course to begin your UX journey or to remember things.
I like the instructor. Good basics and graphics. It helps to focus on real webpages that have major problems and ones that are in good form.
Dr. Mayhew obviously knows the subject matter and she broke it down nicely as a nice beginner course to learn what Web Usability is.
The way the course is explained was very helpful and understandable with good amount of examples used. This helped me quickly understand the basics of the topic.
Very precise language and detailed in the best way...clearly.
I was very impressed with the instructors course content, organization and presentation. Her examples and assignments reflect reality and make complete sense. Very good course. I am glad I took it.
Even though it's basic course. I still learned a lot from Dr. Deborah. Thank you.
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Leroy C. J.
Great course, makes top easy to learn.