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title: "Great Approach to Websites: Focus on users"
description: This is a great presentation on how being focused on the audience guides good web design projects. This can also be called user-focused design.
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# [Great Approach to Websites: Focus on users](https://www.yell.is/blog/2013/09/17/great-approach-to-websites-focus-on-users)

 Written by [Nathanael Yellis](https://www.yell.is/blog/author/nathanael-yellis) | September, 17 2013

Here's a slide deck worth clicking through: real-world proof that focusing on people and testing is a good approach to websites. This fits under my axioms about relying on your audience.

** [Building a User-Focused AmericanActionForum.org](https://www.slideshare.net/ericjwilson/building-a-userfocused-americanactionforumorg) ** from **[ericjwilson](https://www.slideshare.net/ericjwilson)**

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