My last session of the day, presented by Chris Jasek from Elsevier and Emily Shem-Tov from Adobe was well done but the least useful to me. Chris' section where he outlined points of good website design and implementation was good and may be of some future use as a kind of checklist of good design points. They can be boiled down into this 5 basic steps:
- Research your users
- Survey Similar Sites
- Follow best practice design
- Test your design with users
- Address issues and repeat
For me the best takeaway from here was the quote: "People don't come to a website to admire it, they come to get work done."
Emily's portion of the presentation demonstrated an implementation of these steps with all of the features available for the users of the example site (an intranet site for Adobe employees). It looked like a fabulous intranet site but not particularly useful to me in my situation.
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