17 Webapp Design

The document discusses key considerations for designing high quality web applications including security, availability, scalability, and time to market. It outlines various quality dimensions for end-users such as structure, content, accuracy, response time, and performance. The document also lists important web application design goals like consistency, identity, robustness, navigability, visual appeal, and compatibility.

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17 Webapp Design

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16-03-2022

 WebApp Design

By
Dr.Pooja Jain
IIITN

Design & WebApp Quality

 Security
 Rebuff external attacks
 Exclude unauthorized access
 Ensure the privacy of users/customers
 Availability
 the measure of the percentage of time that a
WebApp is available for use
 Scalability
 Can the WebApp and the systems with which it is
interfaced handle significant variation in user or
transaction volume
 Time to Market

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Quality Dimensions for End-Users

 Time
 How much has a Web site changed since the last upgrade?
 How do you highlight the parts that have changed?
 Structural
 How well do all of the parts of the Web site hold together.
 Are all links inside and outside the Web site working?
 Do all of the images work?
 Are there parts of the Web site that are not connected?
 Content
 Does the content of critical pages match what is supposed to be
there?
 Do key phrases exist continually in highly-changeable pages?
 Do critical pages maintain quality content from version to version?
 What about dynamically generated HTML pages?

Quality Dimensions for End-Users

 Accuracy and Consistency
 Are today's copies of the pages downloaded the same as
yesterday's? Close enough?
 Is the data presented accurate enough? How do you know?
 Response Time and Latency
 Does the Web site server respond to a browser request
within certain parameters?
 In an E-commerce context, how is the end to end response
time after a SUBMIT?
 Are there parts of a site that are so slow the user declines to
continue working on it?
 Performance
 Is the Browser-Web-Web site-Web-Browser connection quick
enough?
 How does the performance vary by time of day, by load and
usage?
 Is performance adequate for E-commerce applications?

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WebApp Design Goals

 Consistency
 Content should be constructed consistently
 Graphic design (aesthetics) should present a consistent
look across all parts of the WebApp
 Architectural design should establish templates that lead to
a consistent hypermedia structure
 Interface design should define consistent modes of
interaction, navigation and content display
 Navigation mechanisms should be used consistently across
all WebApp elements

WebApp Design Goals

 Identity
 Establish an “identity” that is appropriate for the business
purpose
 Robustness
 The user expects robust content and functions that are relevant to
the user’s needs
 Navigability
 designed in a manner that is intuitive and predictable
 Visual appeal
 the look and feel of content, interface layout, color
coordination, the balance of text, graphics and other media,
navigation mechanisms must appeal to end-users
 Compatibility
 With all appropriate environments and configurations