About the Designing Information-Rich Web Sites Series

If you register by August 5, 2003, for all three days of the UIE Usability Training you’ll get a free set of the Designing Information Rich Web Sites report series—normally $2,199!

Designing Information-Rich Web Sites is our 10-issue report series. Each full-color issue contains more than 20 pages packed with user observations, commentary, web site examples, and graphics from dozens of web sites. You'll get design insights into the latest thinking on constructing effective links, organizing pages, creating useful graphics, designing for marketing, and building search facilities.

Each issue also analyzes a recent usability test of a major web site, such as Amazon.com, CNN.com, REI.com, and Schwab.com. You'll read about where each of these sites worked well and where they presented obstacles. We'll give you detailed results of the usability testing so you can get high-quality feedback about your own site. We studied hundreds of hours of real users working with real sites to compile the most comprehensive analysis we've ever done.

With our reports, you never get just opinion. We give you real data, based on hours of observation of hundreds of users on dozens of sites. You won't find information like this anywhere else.

The titles that make up the Designing Information-Rich Web Sites series are listed below. We've included a brief description as well as the web-site usability analysis included in each report.

1. What People Do with Web Sites
   Users arrive at a site with a goal in mind.
   Usability Analysis: Schwab.com
2. How Business Goals Affect Site Design
   Different types of sites have different goals—and need different designs.
   Usability Analysis: Amazon.com and CDNow.com, Part 1
3. Designing for Scent
   Users follow the "scent" a site's content gives off.
   Usability Analysis: Amazon.com and CDNow.com, Part 2
4. Links that Give Off Scent
   The scent is better on some sites than on others.
   Usability Analysis: BlackAndDecker.com
5. Organizing Links
   Top sites have well-organized links; others don't.
   Usability Analysis: Ericsson.com and Nokia.com, Part 1
6. Myths of Page Layout
   The best sites disobey most of the common page layout rules.
   Usability Analysis: Ericsson.com and Nokia.com, Part 2
7. Designing Graphics with a Purpose
   Graphics can help or hurt the user experience.
   Usability Analysis: LLBean.com and REI.com, Part 1
8. Designing for Marketing
   Some sites achieve their marketing goals; others continually fail.
   Usability Analysis: LLBean.com and REI.com, Part 2
9. Organizing Content on a Site
   Without a good structure, large sites lead users astray.
   Usability Analysis: About.com
10. On-site Searching and Scent
    When they find no scent, users try to create their own; search engines rarely help.
    Usability Analysis: CNN.com

Special Early Registration Offer!

If you register by August 5, 2003, for all four days of the UIE Usability Training you’ll get a free set of the Designing Information Rich Web Sites report series—normally $2,199!