TY - SER AU - Alizadeh,Shahab AU - Batanov,Dentcho N. AU - Haddawy,Peter AU - Sumanta,Guha ED - Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship, TI - Development of user-centered web sites with high usability T2 - Thesis PY - 2003/// CY - Pathum Thani, Thailand PB - Asian Institute of Technology KW - Web site development KW - Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems) N1 - A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science,School of Advanced Technologies; Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2003 N2 - Usability concept has become the hot topic and the critical aspects of many online applications. Many web-based application with great functionality has failed just because of ignoring the term of usability. Usability has many aspects but for web based application mainly is focused on GUI and functionalities. This study a methodology of usability pattern to give the designer the first needed steps in reaching to better GUI has been presented. Numbers of usability functions based on the framework technology are build in order to be integrated with the Question and Answer model by the same time keeping the concept of object- oriented terminology of the system. Object-oriented software development life cycle is been applied for analysis and design of the application. Finally implemented functions are applied in the Q&A system for representing their functionalities and tasks UR - http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B08340 ER -