Developing Usability Tools and Techniques for Designing and Testing Web Sites

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  • Jean Scholtz
  • Sharon Laskowski
  • Laura Downey
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Introduction Web sites are developed by a wide variety of companies from small one or two person operations to large corporations with entire teams and departments devoted to web development work. Many of the smaller companies have no usability professionals to help with the design of their sites; many of the companies don’t even realize they should have usability professionals assess their sites Often, budget constraints prohibit hiring a usability professional. Furthermore, the time line for development may not allow for usability testing and iterative design.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998