Designing Web Usability: The practice of simplicity

By Sean Larrangton-White. 2001

529 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Human-Computer Interaction

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1. Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
2. A. Cockburn
3. Patrick Hanna
4. Han Zhang
5. Bruce J. McKenzie
6. Richard H. Hall

Citations in the corpus

• A study on tolerable waiting time: how long are Web users willing to wait? (2004, background): “Web users are constantly begging for faster page downloads (Nielsen 2000).”
• The Effectiveness of Online Shopping Characteristics and Well-Designed Websites on Satisfaction (2012, background): “Three retailer characteristics, namely website design (Neilsen 2000; Palmer 2002; Schlosser et al. 2006; Szymanski and Hise 2000), customer service (Ba and Johansson 2008; Jun et al.”
• The impact of web page text-background colour combinations on readability, retention, aesthetics and behavioural intention (2004, background): “Experts such as Nielsen have long expressed the importance of design simplicity and de-emphasized the importance of aesthetics as a component in usable designs (Nielsen 2000).”
• What do web users do? An empirical analysis of web use (2001, methodology): “This property of browsing provides supporting evidence to Nielsen’s web design guidelines such as “Scannability” and “Keep your texts short” (Nielsen 2000).”