#20863
Ideas for Improved Within-Page Navigation
WebTV is the first Web user interface for which I have discovered a serious need for navigational aids within the page.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (1996). Design>Web Design>Usability>Web Browsers
#29355
In Search of Salience: A Response-Time and Eye-Movement Analysis of Bookmark Recognition
Describes the effect of bookmark naming on bookmark recognition. The purpose is to provide empirically-determined guidelines for web producers on how to title pages in order to optimise the recognition of bookmarks by users, and increase the rate of revisitation to their websites.
Poole, Alex. Alex Poole (2005). Articles>Information Design>Usability>Web Browsers
#29357
Issues of Saliency and Recognition in the Search for Web Page Bookmarks
Describes the effect of bookmark naming on bookmark recognition. The purpose was to provide empirically-determined guidelines for web producers on how to title pages in order to optimise the recognition of bookmarks by users, and to increase the rate of revisitation as a result.
Poole, Alex. Alex Poole (2005). Books>Information Design>Usability>Web Browsers
#23121
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the effect of screen size on the speed of navigating common web pages. We performed the experiment on 12 students and concluded that the larger the screen size, the faster a typical web page is browsed.
DiPierro, Chris, George N. SHORE (1997). Design>Web Design>Usability>Web Browsers
#20864
Maybe Web-access through television sets doesn't need to be as usable as a normal computer if it can provide other benefits.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (1996). Design>Web Design>Usability>Web Browsers
#20862
WebTV achieves a very high level of usability given its design constraints. Unfortunately, the constraints are so severe that even this great design ultimately fails to provide an optimal Web user experience. WebTV's usability engineers have done a good job at making it very easy to install and as easy as possible to use, and WebTV's imaging engineers have done an incredible job at high-quality character rendering in an NTSC video signal. In fact, the screenshots in this column do not look as good as WebTV does when displayed on a good television set: you have to see it to believe that it's possible to achieve WebTV's level of text readability on a television screen.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (1996). Design>Web Design>Usability>Web Browsers
