Recommendations from Usability Testing Sessions

1. Use a text size that is comfortable for a majority of users.
2. Use rollover effects for links. They make it easier to discern links from regular text/images, and they can be quite visually appealing.
3. If implementing a large logo, it is best to display it only on the starting page. Large logo’s can be visually distracting if overused.
4. Be careful about which form fields you make required ones. If the user doesn’t want to give certain information, they won’t hesitate to falsify.
5. Whatever colour scheme you choose, ensure that it doesn’t distract users too much. It must have enough contrast to be readable. This may also affect the required text size.
6. Use image previews on the “Portfolio” page. This will make it easier for users to quickly view your previous site designs. Also, it may prevent them from clicking their way out of your site!
7. Ensure that you limit the number of menu options and pages within the site, because users will have trouble finding what they are looking for.
8. Keep wordiness to an absolute minimum.
9. Ensure that menu links are unambiguous. For example, “Contact” and “Support” are too closely related to be separate items. I would replace “Support” with “Help”.