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Usability What is Usability? Easy to use Easy to learn Easy to navigate Low errors or easy to recover if error made Feeling of satisfaction use web conventions underlining color change for visited pages common terminology visual cliches check often for broken links http://www.netmechanic.com/cobrands/zd_dev/ test early Focus Groups Card Sorting (helps define categories or labels) Paper Mockups Heuristics (checklists) Rapid Prototyping (shell site-watch for usability) Nielsen says 5 users will typically find 85% of problems in prototype http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html provide informative feedback