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Evaluate Your Organization

Arguments you can make for good design include:

  • Your Web design sends a message about how you feel about your users. Users get advance insight into your organization’s stance regarding usability by testing out your Web page. If your page is difficult to use, it sends a message—accurately or inaccurately—that your products and services may be similarly obtuse.
  • Usability is not graphic design. A product can have a beautiful graphical user interface and still be difficult to use.
  • What is convenient for the designer is, generally inconvenient and for the user. Practices that are easy for you may frustrate the user.
  • Information is not valuable unless it accessible: Most users are not willing to endure a convoluted path to the information they want; they seek a specific piece of information and they want to follow the path of least resistance to get it.

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