AAPG Wiki:Ease of use

• User interface - get the interface out of the way of the content
• Access and openness - avoid impediments to access (e.g., hitting a firewall for specific content access). Require login only if absolutely necessary and when login is required, make it an extremely thin process without multi-layer authentication. Provide single login capability for AAPG.org and Datapages.com if possible.
• Search - easy to find desired information via easy to use search
• Chunks - provide content in easy to consume chunks (i.e., "just enough" content) versus needing to dig through long articles
• Readability - deliver content through an easy to consume style that includes: aesthetics (look and feel), style of language, fonts, formatting (e.g., equations), layout (e.g., figures)
• Navigation — provide an intuitive navigation (i.e., easy to get around, clues where you are/where you have been/where to go)
• Rich content - provide clickable images (e.g., links above an image)
• Visualization - use visualization to enhance ease of use (e.g., paragraph with links to the rest of the content)
• Familiarity - consider using a familiar visual vernacular (e.g., looks like Wikipedia and familiar to users)
• Categories - use categories and thematic areas (e.g., well logging)
• Re-use - make it easy to re-use content such as editable images/graphics (e.g., SVG format) for use at conferences, journals or ability to cut and paste an equation macro into excel or other applications
• e-Book - enable reading via popular e-book interfaces (iBook, Kindle, Nook)
• Printing - make it easy to print entire articles or selected subsets