Tutorial #2

User Interface Design for the World Wide Web

Jakob Nielsen, Annette Wagner, Sun Microsystems

Saturday, April 13, half-day evening (6:00 to 9:30 pm)

Benefits

You will learn how to design compelling, easy to use, well-structured, and attractive web sites. You will also learn simple and efficient methods for testing web sites for usability.

Origins

This tutorial is new for CHI 96.

Features

major user interface considerations for WWW design
competitive usability analysis of other Web sites
use of customer surveys
discovering the users' mental models of the information space
user testing of WWW designs, including exploratory and directed tasks
using paper prototyping techniques to test early home page designs
testing the intuitiveness of your icons
usability inspection methods to evaluate a large body of Web pages
issues in redesigning a Web site
utilizing non-standard elements such as Netscape extensions and Java applets
designing for an international audience (its the WORLD Wide Web, after all)

Audience

Anyone who authors or designs WWW page content, especially those with responsibility for the overall design and usability engineering of an entire site. You should have some experience using the WWW and understand the basic nature of Web pages.

Presentation

Lecture using in-depth case studies and examples.

Instructors

Jakob Nielsen is a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer. He was the user interface lead for the recent redesign of Sun's WWW pages (www.sun.com) and is a frequent and widely known contributor to issues on hypertext and usability engineering. Annette Wagner is a human interface designer and artist in the Human Computer Interaction group at SunSoft, Inc. She is also the art director for The Sphere Information Services, a Web page service provider.