Comments on: Usability tips for author websites http://outboxonline.com/blog/web-design/usability-tips-author-websites/ A web design blog by Kate McMillan Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:23:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=6450 hourly 1 By: Bret Clement http://outboxonline.com/blog/web-design/usability-tips-author-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Bret Clement Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:15:54 +0000 http://outboxonline.com/blog/?p=290#comment-259 Hi Kate. Nice overview. I especially liked "Even if your website is designed to mimic the universe created by your story, people still want to know about the person behind it." Seems like author/book web sites need to balance a few things. There are some new online usability tools that could give web designers a fast, low cost way to test how the site does. I work with UserTesting.com ($29 per test), but Website Magazine wrote up a review of a few of the products that can help: http://bit.ly/2RATxW. Anyway, thanks for the insights here! Hi Kate. Nice overview. I especially liked “Even if your website is designed to mimic the universe created by your story, people still want to know about the person behind it.”

Seems like author/book web sites need to balance a few things. There are some new online usability tools that could give web designers a fast, low cost way to test how the site does. I work with UserTesting.com ($29 per test), but Website Magazine wrote up a review of a few of the products that can help: http://bit.ly/2RATxW.

Anyway, thanks for the insights here!

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