DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS

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weblication design from Web design. These include. managing time and workflow within a ….. The resulting product will be more task-oriented, guide users …

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DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS
Luke Wroblewski
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Esa M. Rantanen
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Institute of Aviation
The rapid growth of weblications-application-oriented software delivered as a service over the Web-has
revealed a lack of effective guidelines for their design and implementation. Existing Web usability
guidelines hinder weblication usability since they are primarily based on interactions within a browsing
metaphor. Interface design guidelines for client applications, on the other hand, do not address the
conventions of Web users, limitations of the Web environment, nor the new possibilities inherent in the
Web. This paper outlines a set of guidelines for weblication interfaces, which fuse translated clientapplication
guidelines and re-purposed Web usability guidelines together to form a solid foundation for
weblication interface design. The goal of these recommendations is to address the issues associated with
weblication interface design and to present an overall method for thinking about them, emphasizing an
understanding of how and why this approach should be adopted.
INTRODUCTION
The onset of the World Wide Web (WWW) began with a
massive transfer of information-rich content to the notional
realm termed “…