User Centered Web Development and Web design

Because of technological innovations and rise of GPL and open source tools, anyone can study web development and web design. However, not everyone can provide a website with the highest quality. A client seeking must make sure that the web development and web design company can provide them not only a beautiful site but a user-centered one as well.

A successful and efficient web development and web design is like a woman that has both beauty and brains. Aside from being attractive, a business website needs usability and usefulness (Katz- Haas,1998). Often, site visitors will only scan the first hit that would be generated on their list. This is the main reason why in web development and web design, one has to make sure that usability and usefulness is incorporated on the website being developed or maintained.

Usability and usefulness in web development and web design has been defined by Katz- Haas (1998) as important ingredients in creating a website that is user-centered. User-Centered  refers to the ease of access and confidence of a user in using a website. This is brought by web layout, legibility of text, language and visual design. These are important factors in web development and web design that a developer and designer must keep in mind to make sure that the decisions on the design can both meet the wants of a company client as well as the needs of a site visitor. A design may be really pleasing to the eyes but it is nothing if the site users and visitors cannot easily navigate through the page, if it has words that are too difficult to understand, or if the texts are too small or too big to be read easily. The users and visitors are the primary concern in web development and web design. They are the one who interact with the site that is why websites should be ready for the different kind of user and visitors.

A web development and web design that is user-centered is not an easy task to do. Developers and designers has to have enough knowledge about the type of visitors and users. This includes user’s skill and styles in using the internet, cultural backgrounds and personal preferences. It is important that these are met in web development and web design to call the produced web successful and  efficient. It is not an easy task but the rewards are great when a web is developed as user-centered.

Being able to find a web development and web design company that knows the importance of making a website that is user-centered is like finding gold. In Tambayanspot Web Solution, client can relax and worry about other things because this web development and web design company can provide them with a website that they could be proud of.

Reference:

Katz-Haas, Raissa. (July, 1998). Ten Guidelines for User-Centered Web Design. Usability

Interface 5, 1. Retrieved June 11, 2011 from http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/articles/ucd%20_web_devel.html