Website design & plan: The benefits of planning usability

The idea is no matter than what you're doing, there's a user-centered way of doing it. Users should be considered throughout the website design process. Usability should not be an afterthought. Testing and fixing a website after it has been built is inefficient and unlikely to produce good results. The best approach to take is to incorporate a model of "pervasive usability" into your design and production process.

The benefits of planning usability into your project are:

• Increased end-user satisfaction
• Increased end-user productivity, success, and completion
• Reduced long-term development costs (costs incurred from fixing poorly designed products)
• Reduced training and support costs
• Return business to improve your competitiveness