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Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

A Visual Design Methodology

Darrell Sano

1996

288 pages

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Keywords

Critique and Design

Interface Design

 

Using real examples, Sano describes how to design for large sets of information. He also tackles the problems of designing for dynamically-changing, information. How do you deal with the incoming soccer scores of the World cup? OR even more dynamic is the electronic storefront with patrons buying and selling, prices rising and falling and stock constantly changing.

Sano dedicates a large section to paper-prototyping, which is even more important with a large-scale working web site. In some respects paper-prototyping is a combination of storyboarding and usability testing.

His examples of task-flow diagrams at the design stage are also very helpful.