MasterCard International Announces Winners of Usability Excellence Awards
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"MasterCard International today announced that A.G. Edwards and BigDates.com are the winners of MasterCard's first Usability Excellence Awards, created to recognize excellence in web-site usability. The MasterCard Usability Services Team, one of the premier user-centered design groups in the United States, evaluated sites submitted by companies across the country.
Winners were chosen from two categories, e-commerce sites and financial sites, based on seven important principles of web usability: navigation, information architecture, accessibility, error prevention and recovery, writing for the web, support and interface design. The e-commerce category included online stores and payment processing organizations, and the financial category included financial-services sites that offer customers online tools or information, such as those sites offering online banking and bill payment.
The web site for brokerage firm A.G. Edwards, the winner of the financial category, was selected because "the site demonstrates extremely consistent navigation throughout," said Jennifer Ruffino, the Certified Usability Analyst who leads the Usability Services Team at MasterCard and headed up the judging of the entries. "No matter where you are in the site, users can find what they're looking for very easily. Buttons, colors and link labels are all used consistently. The site also features a nice balance of content and links." continued ... (Via TMC.net)
"MasterCard International today announced that A.G. Edwards and BigDates.com are the winners of MasterCard's first Usability Excellence Awards, created to recognize excellence in web-site usability. The MasterCard Usability Services Team, one of the premier user-centered design groups in the United States, evaluated sites submitted by companies across the country.
Winners were chosen from two categories, e-commerce sites and financial sites, based on seven important principles of web usability: navigation, information architecture, accessibility, error prevention and recovery, writing for the web, support and interface design. The e-commerce category included online stores and payment processing organizations, and the financial category included financial-services sites that offer customers online tools or information, such as those sites offering online banking and bill payment.
The web site for brokerage firm A.G. Edwards, the winner of the financial category, was selected because "the site demonstrates extremely consistent navigation throughout," said Jennifer Ruffino, the Certified Usability Analyst who leads the Usability Services Team at MasterCard and headed up the judging of the entries. "No matter where you are in the site, users can find what they're looking for very easily. Buttons, colors and link labels are all used consistently. The site also features a nice balance of content and links." continued ... (Via TMC.net)
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