11 usability principles for CMS products

[Sita Bhatt]

 

Hi James

That's quite a useful list. Would "provide clean visual design" also feature in the list? I mean right usage of colors, images, and so on.

Rgds

Sita 

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Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 15:11:35 +1000
From: James Robertson <jamesr@...>
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Hi all,

I've just published a new article titled "11 usability principles
for CMS products":

http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_usabilitycms/index.html

* minimise the number of options
* be robust and error-proof
* provide task-based interfaces
* hide implementation details
* meet core usability guidelines
* match authors' mental models
* support both frequent and infrequent users
* provide efficient user interfaces
* provide help and instructions
* minimise training required
* support self-sufficiency

Would be interested to hear your thoughts, and to continue these
discussions on the list...

Cheers,
James

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Sita Bhatt wrote:

> That's quite a useful list. Would "provide clean visual design" also
> feature in the list? I mean right usage of colors, images, and so on.

Yup, that would be included as part of the "core usability"
requirements. All of these things are well understood (at least
in the usability field), if not consistently followed in
CMS products... ;-)

Cheers,
James


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