Posts Tagged ‘website application development’

Website designers should use more free space and at least 1 usability tester

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Designing new layout for your website live some free space

Free space improves visual perception — it’s a well known fact for website designers. They take into consideration importance of space between paragraphs, images, buttons and other elements on the page. They can also group items reducing space between them, it helps to show connections, structure and hierarchy of elements.

Free space also makes content more readable. Numerous studies show that spaces between paragraphs increase perception by 20%.

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Effective user testing should not be extensive

Jakob Nielsen has calculate the ideal number of website usability testers. His statistics shows that only 5 testers identify almost 85% of all the problems on your site, while 15 testers identify almost all the problems.

The most serious problems usually can be found by the first or the first two testers, the rest testers will only confirm these problems and will find some more minor bags. So those who working at website and web application development can obtain good results without extensive and expensive user testing.

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