Throughout your Web design or redesign project, you should take advantage of what is already known about best practices for each step of the process. The Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines (PDF, 20.64MB) brings you these best practices compiled through an extensive process of research and review. (From usability.gov)
You can also download specific sections of the book:
- design process and evaluation (PDF - 1.9MB)
- optimizing the user experience (PDF - 9.1MB)
- accessibility (PDF - 2.4MB)
- hardware and software (PDF - 2.8MB)
- the homepage (PDF - 12.1MB)
- page layout (PDF - 21.9MB)
- navigation (PDF - 13.1MB)
- scrolling and paging (PDF - 4.5MB)
- headings, titles, and labels (PDF - 7.8MB)
- links (PDF - 17.1MB)
- text appearance (PDF - 11.2MB)
- lists (PDF - 6.6MB)
- screen-based controls (widgets) (PDF - 15.1MB)
- graphics, images, and multimedia (PDF - 16.8MB)
- writing Web content (PDF - 11.0MB)
- content organization (PDF - 10.1MB)
- search (PDF - 9.1MB)
- usability testing (PDF - 1MB)
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