I recently read a very interesting post by Bruce Lawson entitled ‘A contitution for a new website’. In this post he also outlined 7 web design principals. I fully agree with his thoughts and felt I had to inform people of this post and the design priniples. Here is the first three:

  • The user is sovereign. The site must be designed around user needs, not organisational structure or operational convenience.
  • Wherever possible, users should be consulted in formal user-testing. (Those of us within the organisation rarely have the same needs or expectations, and are therefore rarely reliable proxies.)
  • Aesthetic design is subservient to function. Aesthetic design is subjective. Where internal stakeholders cannot agree, user-testing should take place.

Read the complete post on Bruce’s site.