Custom User Interface Design
The idea behind usability is to design websites with your user in mind. Putting the user first in the design process results in greater efficiency, learning time, and satisfaction. This process is often referred to as an optimized "user experience."
The goal of optimized usability is to make a website easy to understand, easy to use, and easy to learn. The outcome of good usability is a greater likelihood of user acceptance.
Usability Guidelines:
Clear navigation aids
Direct access
Bandwidth and interaction
Simplicity and consistency
Design integrity and stability
Feedback and dialogue
Create Usability Wireframes
Accessibility Guidelines:
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Alternates and fallbacks
Wireframe Layouts for Usability
Wireframes are a skeletal version of a website or product that represents navigational concepts and page content. The term is used in 2 broad ways:
A static wireframe or page schematic is a single drawing of an individual page template that shows the information components, especially the navigation, that will appear on a page, in a rough form, so that navigation components can be documented and assessed. The drawing may suggest a basic visual layout, but doesn't commit to any specific appearance.
A dynamic wireframe is a set of cross-linked pages acting as a functional prototype of the final website without the graphical components and often with only sketchy text content (e.g. "Product description goes here."). It is often accompanied by a tree diagram or flowchart of the website. The wireframe does not address visual design or page layout.