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Website Usability: Is this Important for Your Business?  

Introduction to Website as an Interface:

We can define the interface as a space where is an interaction between:
- user who performs an action
- goal, which he wants to achieve
- The tool they need to achieve the goal and then carry out the operation.

If we apply these concepts to the world of the Web can say that in implementing the project Internet is necessary to consider:
- the user, which interacts with the site
- the task / objective: that he wants to achieve
- The instrument, so the Internet site that allows him to do this and achieve its goal.

The website can stand in the way between the company and its customers and in many cases is not only a showcase static but represents a real opportunity for interaction with the undertaking that involves elements emotional, cognitive and rational. The website has assumed economic importance of such proportions as not to allow a development of Web projects which does not take into account the principles of Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and 'Ergonomics Science.

When you spread the first tools usability was not regarded as a problem because the software products were intended for designers themselves or who had similar skills. The patterns of cognitive and coincided designer and attention was completely devoted to the medium, the computer and not in order, that is coordinating the activities of persons for the use of the product.

In the seventies develops a new market where the consumer becomes a customer and you switch from mass production to a process of customizing the product. The competition moves on new factors such as size and specifications of use and begins to emerge the need to follow a design philosophy based on the interests and needs of the end.

The prerequisite for the development of a quality is knowledge of, its information needs and its socio-demographic characteristics. A project should always be conducted in the manner of "User-Centered Design" that is putting the user at the centre of the project.

The development of a product centered about is a process that begins considering the user and their needs rather than technology. Develop a product centered about requires the involvement of a multidisciplinary team that includes representatives of marketing, technology sector and experts from cognitive psychology and usability. He was born the Human Computer Interaction (HCI), a science that brings together these disciplines.

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