Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose [Paperback]

Dave Lawrence (Author), Soheyla Tavakol (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition. edition (Nov 17 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1846285186
ISBN-13: 978-1846285189
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 17 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 363 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,497,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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From the reviews: "‘Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses the strengths of traditional structured, stepped, and iterative approaches with … the desired characteristics of purpose, usability and aesthetics.’ … Throughout the book, there are many helpful figures and tables to support the methodology. The structure of the book makes it appropriate for academic use. In addition, practitioners looking for ways to improve or broaden their skills, to serve clients with varying needs and interests, will be interested in reading the book." (M. G. Murphy, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (3), March, 2008)

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Real Website Design is a new methodology that fuses traditional strengths of structured, stepped, and iterative approaches to design and implementation, sharply focused throughout a project on defining and achieving the desired purpose, usability and aesthetic characteristics – which are essential requirements of any website. This book offers practical discussion of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics, and a down-to-earth, structured approach to designing a website or teaching website design.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unique, aestehtically organized, informative & easy to follow, Aug 21 2007

By V. Ameli - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose (Paperback)

I've found in many website design books, if it is too focused on technical information, it soon feels outdated. I'm pleasantly surprised with this book, since the information offered is mainly on how to design a balanced and aesthetically working website, suitable for any level of expertise in designing a website and for any purpose. I am an artist and love designing my own websites - with mid level technical understanding. To me, the basic knowledge & psychology of aesthetics is essential, and remains always the same - - it can never go out of date. This book has a large focus on that. I highly recommend this book.

I particularly enjoyed the flow of ease of the book, explaining from the beginning what the book is about, and how to use it, with clear and easy to understand tables and images. The authors have kept their promise.

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