Usability

What is usability?

Usability and website accessibility are closely related and often work together to ensure that a website is easy to use and accessible to all users, including those with disabilities.

Usability refers to the ease with which a user can navigate and use a website to achieve their goals. A website with good usability is intuitive and easy to use, with clear and concise navigation, relevant and useful content, and well-designed and functional features.

Usability covers a broad range of items in the digital world. Usability is the degree to which something is able or fit to be used, It can be summarised as:

Usability is the degree to which software can be used by specified consumers to achieve quantified objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a quantified context of use.

Source: Wikipedia

Usability by exceedability

We work with organisations to ensure digital products and services:

  1. Work for the broadest range of users.
  2. Meet, or exceed the needs of users.
  3. Are efficient to use, reducing time to accomplish tasks and increasing accuracy.
  4. Are easy to understand or learn
  5. Satisfying or delighting as many users as possible.
  6. Are compliant with legislation and standards.

The Double Diamond

A process model and design process that entails emphasis on problem analysis as the basis for creating a solution for an external client.

The Double Diamond process model.
The double diamond design process model The Design Council

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