10 Tips for Designing Easy-to-Use Websites
Follow these tips to place your users in control.
1. Design pages for scanning, using highlighted text, bulleted lists and short sentences.
2. Make clickable things look clickable.
3. Keep shopping carts clean and simple.
4. Use sans-serif fonts and white space to enhance readability.
5. Minimize graphics to reduce download time.
6. Make your logo click to home.
7. Title a page the same as the link or button that displayed it.
8. Provide a cancel button on every form page and a back button on every
message page.
9. Avoid technical jargon (e.g. Java, Java Script, Applet)
10. Prototype and test the interface with users before development
