Web Design Principles

Good web page design is based on research, psychology and experience about how to create websites that are usable for the most number of people

• True

• False

Why should every website use recognisable icons in familiar places ? Choose all that are correct.

• So that you can easily use a new website because things are where you expect them to be

• So that people who do not have good digital skills can more easily use the internet

• Because people remember where something last was, so putting it in the same place every time makes it quicker to use

Navigation means how you are guided to a specific place. Good website navigation means that the website has been planned well so that users know where they are and hyperlinks are displayed and working.

• True

• False

Web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them. More specifically, people can:

• perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web

• contribute to the Web

• True

• False

The types of disability or difficulties that good, accessible web design can help with are:

Choose all that are correct

• • auditory and visual

• • cognitive

• • neurological

• • physical

• • speech

White space is empty space on a web page. It is used so that

• The web page is clear and the user does not get overloaded with information

• It costs less money to make a website with a lot of white colour. Colour is expensive on the Internet

Website usability means that a website is clear, looks good, and works how the user expects it to work. Which of these are things that a website with good usability will have?

• Easily learnable

• Efficient so a user can do what they need to with the least amount of clicks

• Uses clear, distinct colours and fonts so that everyone can read it

• Uses icons and puts things in familiar places so that people can easily find what they are looking for

• Has menus and links in unexpected places so the user has to search the page to find what they are look for