Web design principles are guidelines followed to achieve a web design goal, a finished web site. Design principles develop from human-computer interaction research and there are several respected sources offering their own published list of design principles. Such sources include Shneiderman B's Eight Golden Rules, Nielsen J's Ten Heuristics, Tufte E's Information Presentation and Tognazzini B, Toggs First Principles. They all suggest design principles, which if followed, will help achieve the final design goal. Most principles apply whether considering the web site's information architecture, navigation design or its graphic design.

An analysis of each individual design principle in one list will offer a rationale to their inclusion in that list. Thereafter the analysis would justify how each principle could be put into practice and then conclude how the principles complement each other when implemented to facilitate good web site design.

References
Tognazzini B. Ask Tog First Principles of Interaction Design. Available from:
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
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Shneiderman B. Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design. Available from: http://www.jarnot.com/twiki/bin/view/Public/EightGoldenRulesOfInterfaceDesign.
Accessed 07.10.05
Tufte E. The Work of Edward Tufte. Available from: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index
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Nielsen J. Ten Usability Heuristics. Available from: http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html
Accessed 07.10.05.

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