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Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles - http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services. |
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Lynx Friendly - http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~djc/personal/lynxfriend.html
The key to being Lynx Friendly is to be consciously aware of the HTML which goes into creating a web page and to ensure that those using a non-graphical browser are not ignored. |
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Adobe - Flash : Usability - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/testing_usability.html
Usability tips, examples, test case, quotes, related articles and a Flash forum for site developers. |
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Web Usability Articles - http://www.digital-web.com/topics/usability/
Several years of usability-related articles from Digital Web Magazine. |
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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003 (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031222.html
Sites are getting better at using minimalist design, maintaining archives, and offering services. However, these advances entail their own usability problems, as several prominent mistakes from 2003 show. |
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Web Development - http://www.december.com/web/develop.html
A summary of the complete life cycle of web development: planning, analysis, design, implementation, and promotion. Key practices and online resources are given for each process. By John December, author of numerous material for web development methodology. |
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CNET.com - Study: Design lacking in e-tail sites - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-931274.html
The design of some of the leading online stores is mediocre at best, but, according to a new study, it is improving. |
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Art and the Zen of Web Sites - http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.shtml
Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site. |
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Some Simple Techniques In Making Your Website Accessible - http://www.adapts.gatech.edu/general_resources/webaccess.htm
Tutorial by Andrew Pae, Technical Coordinator at the ADAPTS Office at Georgia Tech. General design principles plus resources for additional information. |
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WebWord Usability Consulting - http://www.webword.com/
Usability and human factors for the Internet. Including book list, expert articles and interviews, and recommended sites. |
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Don't Link to Us - http://www.dontlink.com
Highlights stupid linking policies by linking to web sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them. |
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Guide to Usability for Software Engineers (GUSE) - http://otal.umd.edu/guse/
Pages collected by the University of Maryland, Masters of Software Engineering. These guidelines will assist software engineers to create effective user interfaces. |
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http://www.opquast.com/ - http://www.opquast.com/
A list of best practices intended to improve the quality of on-line services. |
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Universal Usability - http://universalusability.com/
Includes an online version of the book "Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers" by Sarah Horton, along with links to other useful resources. |
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STC SIG - Usability - http://www.stcsig.org/usability/
Forum to share information, resources and experiences on issues related to the usability and user-centered design. It is the home of the Usability Special Interest Group of the Society for Technical Communication. |
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Hot Text: Web Writing That Works - http://www.webwritingthatworks.com/
Articles from trainer-writer team Jonathan and Lisa Price. Ideas and services for web writers, editors, and content managers. |
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Usability Matters - http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um/
From the Usability Matters Group at the Linköping University in Sweden. Their goal is to make computer systems more usable. The 1995 essay "Perspectives on Usability" by Jonas Löwgren is available for download in PDF format. |
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Human Factors International - Web Usability Tips - http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/10tips.asp
These tips are provided to help you improve the interaction between humans and computers in your web design. |
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Schroeder, Will: Testing Web Sites with Eye-Tracking - http://www.uie.com/articles/eye_tracking/
Describes an experiment carried out to monitor the eye movements of visitors to a prototype web site. |
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http://www.merges.net/theory/ - http://www.merges.net/theory/
A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review. |
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Croc O' Lyle - http://crocolyle.blogspot.com
Weblog by a practicing User Experience Architect. Usually about usability, design information architecture and e-business. |
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A List Apart - The Perfect 404 - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/
Ian Lloyd gives strategies for building custom 404 error pages that enhance usability. |
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CNN.com - Analysis: Web sites are locking out the disabled - http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/07/web.site.accessibility.idg/index.html
Office buildings have wheelchair ramps and TV has closed captioning, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way. |
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Adaptive Path - 90% of All Usability Testing is Useless - http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000328.php
Lane Becker writes, "Rather than a validation done once before completing a product... internal, qualitative usability testing [should be] done earlier, more frequently, and as part of the design process - not separate from it." |
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Java Software Human Interface - http://java.sun.com/developer/techDocs/hi/
Essential information about human interface design and usability for applications and applets written in the Java programming language. |
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Usability Must Die - http://www.usabilitymustdie.com
Examines what's wrong with the usability movement, with some humour, and experiences from the coal face of software design. |
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Vaspers the Grate - http://vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com/
Insights into web writing, user-focused web design, and web credibility enhancement. |
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Scottberkun.com - http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/
Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design. |
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JavaScript and Web Site Usability - http://webword.com/interviews/goodman.html
An Interview with JavaScript Guru, Mr. Danny Goodman on how JavaScript can make a web site easier to use. |
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Fifth Conference on the Human Factors and the Web - http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/hfweb/index.html
A forum for sharing information among a community of human factors engineers, designers, and developers who are interested in producing web sites that are more useful and usable. Site contains proceedings of the most recent (3/Jun/1999) conference and archives of all previous conferences. |
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100 Things to Do to Make a Better Site - http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/100-things
List of several (actually, eight) ways to make a more user-friendly site. Also has other reader comments on the same topic. |
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Eyetools Research - http://blog.eyetools.net/
Greg Edwards on design and content optimization through eyetrack testing: measuring what people read, look at, skip, and ignore on webpages. |
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AnyBrowser.com - http://www.anybrowser.com/
Web page viewer presents a site as it might be seen by visitors with different browsers. |
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Navigation 101 - http://wdvl.com/Location/Navigation/101/
A simple, understandable navigation scheme is a critical aspect of site design and has a direct effect on the bottom line. |
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AgeLight Institute - http://www.agelight.com/Resources/webdesign.htm
Guidelines written for webmasters, communicators and marketers to assist with website design for maximum usability for seniors and older internet users. |
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Szuc, Daniel: Usability in Hong Kong - http://webword.com/interviews/szuc.html
Interview detailing the approach to web usability in Hong Kong. |
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The WDVL: Designing Attractive Web Pages - http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Pages/
Before you can design avant-garde Web pages, you have to know what the rules are before you try to break, bend or amend them. |
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7 Debilitating Diseases of Business Websites - http://www.wilsonweb.com/articles/7diseases.htm
Illnesses make websites inefficient. The cures, by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson:Web Marketing Today, Issue 41, February 1, 1998. |
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Stevesdomain.net - http://www.stevesdomain.net/
Focuses on furthering the education of web related topics, including web design and navigation tips, advice and techniques. |
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eShopability - http://www.eshopability.com
Provides design and usability information and advice on how to convert browsers into buyers and keep them, analysis and trends. Free fortnightly newsletter. |
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User-Friendly Web Sites for All Ages, Microsoft PressPass - http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/press/1999/May99/GuidelinePR.asp
Guidelines for businesses, developers and web designers on how to make their web sites more user-friendly and accessible for the adult community. A white paper issued by Microsoft, "Effective Web Design Considerations for Older Adults." is available for download. |
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Roger C. Parker - Eleven Common Web Page Design Frustrations and How To Cure Them - http://www.newentrepreneur.com/Resources/Articles/12_Com_Mis/12_com_mis.html
How to keep web page design from interfering with communication to visitors. |
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How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard - http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/guistandards.pdf
Eric Schaffer of Human Factors International describes the result of his experiences of working Eric working on over 150 user interface standardization projects. |
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ShoreWalker - http://www.shorewalker.com/
Covers every area of site design as well as what not to do. Steers the user away from hype and towards more practical, user-friendly Web design. Based in Australia. |
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Various: WebWord Interviews with the Experts - http://webword.com/interviews/index.html
Usability articles written by John S. Rhodes. This page is a good starting point. |
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Pointafter.com - 20 Do's and Don'ts of Web Usability - http://www.pointafter.com/Archives/nl0204.htm
Tips from George Prociuk. |
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Five Usability Principles For Web Design - http://www.publish.com/c/a/Graphics-Tools/Five-usability-principles-for-Web-design/
Ilise Benun elaborates on the principles of consistency, interaction, instruction, choices and control. (Publish.com) |
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Usable Webs - http://www.usablewebs.com/
Information on basic web usability principles, including hints on helping search engines find your site. Web usability assessments and content development are available. |
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Jeffrey Veen: The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds - http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000733.html
RSS feeds are surprisingly difficult for the average user to use. |
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Internet Brothers: Helpware for the Cybercommunity - http://internetbrothers.com/
Expanding web community by offering free tips and tutorials about HTML and DHTML, graphics editing, site promotion, digital photography, and desktop publishing. Presented often with a touch of humor, and always with examples. |
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Web Usability Findings - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bing/oversite/webusefind.html
Compilation of surveys of web usability engineering and test results. |
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Publish.com - Usability Matters - http://www.publish.com/article2/0,,1762078,00.asp
Article by Marcia Ludkin. "Again and again... usability experts discover that real people may not understand what may be obvious to a site’s designers." |
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Readability Of Websites With Various Foreground/Background Color Combinations, Font Types And Word Styles - http://hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html
1997 psychology research project by Alyson L. Hill at Stephen F. Austin State University. Participants scanned simulated websites for a target word; readability was inferred from reaction time. |
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Spool, Jared: Web Graphic Design Is Not What You Think, A Usability Perspective - http://www.ddj.com/web-development/184412961
"The number one activity on the Web is information retrieval." In part of his tutorial, Spool explained his findings on graphic design and users' success. |
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The Scent of Information - http://www.ddj.com/web-development/184413077
The reason why so many people lose their way on the Web, according to usability expert Jared Spool, is because they lose the scent of the information they are looking for. Jared shares his thoughts and perspectives on the Web, usability, and the user's quest for information. |
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Webmaster's Corner - http://www.newramp.com/webmasters/archive.asp
A commentary on web usability, design, and direction aimed at the beginning web developer. |
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Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More? - http://www.ddj.com/184412956
When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more? |
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Principia Hypertextica: Introduction - http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/chaff1ra/m132/WWW/type/
A mathematics educator's view of web design. Encourages speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability. Discusses difficulties of math typesetting on the web. |
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Usefo.com - http://patsula.com/usefo/
Web design resources, Usableword newsletter, and web usability guidelines to make web sites faster, more educational, and usable. |
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Bohmann Usability - http://www.bohmann.dk/observations/
News weblog covering web usability in Europe. |