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User-Centered Usability Engineering Processes for Websites
Published
Author(s)
Theresa O'Connell, E Murphy
Abstract
For Websites to succeed, they must be user-centered. This is accomplished through usability engineering. The first part of this article gives usability engineering definitions; the second describes its processes.
Citation
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
O'Connell, T.
and Murphy, E.
(2008),
User-Centered Usability Engineering Processes for Websites, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
(Accessed October 15, 2025)