Great Websites has some or all of the following habits or might I say qualities:

• It conforms to the way users interact with the Web, but focuses on the activity instead of a specific audience.

• It has only those features that are absolutely necessary for users to complete the activity the application is meant to support.

• It supports the user’s mental model of what it does.

• It helps users get started quickly so they can become intermediate users as soon as possible.

• It makes it easy to recover from mistakes and difficult to make them in the first place.

• It has uniformly designed interface elements, but leverages irregularity to create meaning and importance.

• It reduces clutter to a minimum.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 3:46 pm and is filed under Design & Usability.