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Layers of Website Users' Experiences
thumbnail image of Jesse James Garrett's Elements of User Experience layers
Copyright ©2003 by Jesse James Garrett; p. 33 of The Elements of User Experience: User Centered for the Web by Jesse James Garrett published by American Institute of Graphic Arts and New Riders (an imprint of Pearson Education) with ISBN 0-7357-1202-6 in 2002.
Cato's Awareness, Understanding, and Action Model
thumbnail image of John Cato's awareness, understanding, action model
Note that the model illustrated here is similar to Donald A. Norman's Stages of Action Model (see in particular User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction edited by Norman and Draper, published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, in 1986 with ISBN 0-89859-781-1).
Copyright ©2001 by Pearson Education Limited; p. 95 of User-Centred Web Design by John Cato published by Addison-Wesley (an imprint of Pearson Education) with ISBN 0-201-39860-5 in 2001.
An example of some categories of usability in application
thumbnail image of spider graph of usability measures in two cases
Copyright ©2001 by Pearson Education Limited; p. 213 of User-Centred Web Design by John Cato published by Addison-Wesley (an imprint of Pearson Education) with ISBN 0-201-39860-5 in 2001.
Basic Website Structures
thumbnail image of Brockmann et al.'s Structures for organizing information—powers and risks
Note that the same concepts are presented by Jesse James Garrett in The Elements of User Experience in the section on architectual approaches (pp. 97–100).  Garrett uses the terms
sequential
for what is identified in this diagram as sequence
hierarchical structure
for what is identified in this diagram as hierarchy
matrix
for what is identified in this diagram as grid
organic structure
for what is identified in this diagram as web
Figure 16 (p. 183): Structures for organizing information—powers and risks by R. John Brockmann, William Horton, and Kevin Brock; From Database to Hypertext via Electronic Publishing: An Information Odyssey (Ch. 11, pp. 162–205) in The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information edited by Edward Barrett, published by the MIT Press in 1989, and © Copyright 1989 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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