{"id":105,"date":"2011-05-13T07:11:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/?p=105"},"modified":"2011-05-13T07:11:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:11:44","slug":"designing-websites-for-total-user-experience-elements-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/2011\/05\/13\/designing-websites-for-total-user-experience-elements-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing websites for total user experience: Elements checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting the customer to \u201cyes\u201d can be a daunting task, especially when they are not entirely sure what it is they want their website to accomplish. They see all the new bells and whistles on other sites, or a great new feature on their competitor\u2019s site, and they want to have those features too. Gathering expectations of the customers your client serves takes a separate approach, including usability testing. As web developers, we have to balance what is good for both our clients and the customers they serve.<\/p>\n<p>The web has changed a lot from the early 1990\u2019s in its complexity. Today, the user experience (UX) involves an interaction between the users and the web page documents; moving from \u201cweb design\u201d to \u201cinteraction \/ interface design\u201d takes on many forms. Are you a web designer or has your job description changed to \u201cinteraction designer,\u201d \u201cuser interface engineer,\u201d or \u201capplications programmer\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>From brainstorming ideas with your client to hammering down a central point means you have to distill the overall scope, design, content, interaction, and experience that you want to create. This includes several topics which I will address below, including Look and Feel, Features, Controls, and Services. (<a title=\"TechRepublic article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/blog\/webmaster\/designing-websites-for-total-user-experience-elements-checklist\/304\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting the customer to \u201cyes\u201d can be a daunting task, especially when they are not entirely sure what it is they want their website to accomplish. They see all the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rymocs.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}