Web Usability - Page 1

Media publications

• Adaptive Path - 90% of All Usability Testing is Useless - 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." (Published 2004.06.00)
• CNET.com - Study: Design lacking in e-tail sites - The design of some of the leading online stores is mediocre at best, but, according to a new study, it is improving. (Published 2002.06.03)
• The Scent of Information - 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. (Published 1998.05.15)

	Alertbox URL: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ ODP description: Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly column on current issues in Web usability, focusing on simple and minimalist design based on real user needs. Page title: Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Newsletter on Web Usability Page description: Design guidelines for Web and intranet usability, user research summarized, Top-10 mistakes of Web design, how to write for the Web, response time limits, small sites as Web's killer apps, Web project management
	Hot Text: Web Writing That Works URL: http://www.webwritingthatworks.com/ ODP description: Articles from trainer-writer team Jonathan and Lisa Price. Ideas and services for web writers, editors, and content managers. Page title: Resources at  Hot Text -- Web Writing that Works
	Bohmann Usability URL: http://www.bohmann.dk/observations/ ODP description: News weblog covering web usability in Europe. Page title: Bohmann's Usability News Page description: News on high-quality user experiences by Kristoffer Bohmann.
	AgeLight Institute URL: http://www.agelight.com/Resources/webdesign.htm ODP description: Guidelines written for webmasters, communicators and marketers to assist with website design for maximum usability for seniors and older internet users. Page title: AgeLight Web Design - Usability
	Croc O' Lyle URL: http://crocolyle.blogspot.com ODP description: Weblog by a practicing User Experience Architect. Usually about usability, design information architecture and e-business. Page title: Croc o' Lyle - Usability, Information Architecture and web design commentary by Lyle Kantrovich Page description: Daily commentary on web usability, web design, information architecture and other related topics.
	Klariti Guide to Usability and Information Architecture URL: http://www.klariti.com/information-architecture/ ODP description: Directory contains over 500 links, mainly to scholarly articles. Page title: The A-Z of Information Architecture  - Articles and Resources on Information Architecture Page description: How to get started and maximize your technical writing career. Articles on business and technical writing,freelancing, and how to write white papers, case studies and technical documentation.Writing technical manuals, writing technical manuals, user manuals, proofreading services, technical documentation, courseware development services by professional writers
	Scottberkun.com URL: http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/ ODP description: Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design. Page title: Essay archive - scottberkun.com
	Don't Link to Us URL: http://www.dontlink.com ODP description: Highlights stupid linking policies by linking to web sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them. Page title: Don't Link to Us!
	Some Simple Techniques In Making Your Website Accessible URL: http://www.adapts.gatech.edu/general_resources/webaccess.htm ODP description: Tutorial by Andrew Pae, Technical Coordinator at the ADAPTS Office at Georgia Tech. General design principles plus resources for additional information. Page title: Some simple techniques in making your website accessible Page description: The Georgia Tech Disability Services
	Jef Raskin URL: http://jef.raskincenter.org/ ODP description: A site by and about Jef Raskin, interactive systems design expert.
	Principia Hypertextica: Introduction URL: http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/chaff1ra/m132/WWW/type/ ODP description: A mathematics educator's view of web design. Encourages speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability. Discusses difficulties of math typesetting on the web. Page description: A mathematics educator's view of web design. Encourages speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability. Discusses difficulties of math typesetting onthe web.
	Szuc, Daniel: Usability in Hong Kong URL: http://webword.com/interviews/szuc.html ODP description: Interview detailing the approach to web usability in Hong Kong. Page title: WebWord Interview > Usability in Hong Kong
	Eyetools Research URL: http://blog.eyetools.net/ ODP description: Greg Edwards on design and content optimization through eyetrack testing: measuring what people read, look at, skip, and ignore on webpages. Page title: Eyetools Eyetracking Research
	Adobe - Flash : Usability URL: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/testing_usability.html ODP description: Usability tips, examples, test case, quotes, related articles and a Flash forum for site developers. Page title: Adobe - Flash Developer Center : Testing/Usability Articles
	Theory URL: http://www.merges.net/theory/ ODP description: A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review. Page title: adam baker | theory
	Art and the Zen of Web Sites URL: http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.shtml ODP description: Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site. Page description: TLC Systems is a management consulting firm, specializing in the architecture, design, and implementation of systems involving computers and people.
	Spool, Jared: Web Graphic Design Is Not What You Think, A Usability Perspective URL: http://www.ddj.com/web-development/184412961 ODP description: "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. Page title: Dr. Dobb's | It's Not What You Think | January 1, 2002 Page description: It's Not What You Think
	Usability First URL: http://www.usabilityfirst.com/ ODP description: Diamond Bullet Design offers their experience and knowledge on website and software usability. Page title: Usability First: Usability in Website and Software Design Page description: Usability resources: a glossary of usability-related terms, usability methods, best practices, humor, and more. A free service of Foraker Design
	Rosenfeld, Lou: Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo! URL: http://www.ddj.com/184412919 ODP description: Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets. Page title: Dr. Dobb's | Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo! | January 1, 2002 Page description: Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo!
	Starling Access Services URL: http://www.starlingweb.com/webac.htm ODP description: Interesting definition of Accessible Web Design. For use by "anyone, any web browsing technology and any site". Page title: Starling Access Services - Accessible Web Design
	Something 4 Nothing Web Pages URL: http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_something_4_nothing.html ODP description: Tips for building pages which are visually pleasing, and yet still download quickly and make information easy to access. From Webdeveloper.com. Page title: Something 4 Nothing Web Pages [Part 1] / WebDeveloper.com ® Page description: WebDeveloper.com Forums, Where Web Developers and Designers Learn How to Build Web Sites, Program in Java and JavaScript and More!
	Usability Matters URL: http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um/ ODP description: 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. Page title: UM
	JavaScript and Web Site Usability URL: http://webword.com/interviews/goodman.html ODP description: An Interview with JavaScript Guru, Mr. Danny Goodman. Page title: Interview: JavaScript and Web Site Usability
	User Interface Design - Software Design Smorgasbord URL: http://www.chesco.com/~cmarion/Design/UIDesign.html ODP description: A resource page on UI Design, maintained by Craig Marion, the webmaster of Chester County Internet Services. Page title: Software Design Smorgasbord: User Interface Design Page Page description: Examine the methods, techniques, perspectives, and accomplishments of leading software designers.
	Usability Must Die URL: http://www.usabilitymustdie.com ODP description: Examines what's wrong with the usability movement, with some humour, and experiences from the coal face of software design. Page description: Your period of waiting is over. The usability backlash has started, and its here to stay. The self proclaimed experts arent in charge, we are. So lets act like it and take control.
	Readability Of Websites With Various Foreground/Background Color Combinations, Font Types And Word Styles URL: http://hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html ODP description: 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. Page title: AHNCUR
	Usable Web URL: http://usableweb.com/ ODP description: Collection of links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web. Page description: Usable Web is a collection of 786 links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
	All Things Web: The Usable Web URL: http://www.pantos.org/atw/usable.html ODP description: Tips and techniques for building reader-friendly Web pages. Page description: The ATW Usable Web Index
	WEBehavior URL: http://www.webehavior.com/ ODP description: A behavioral research, usability testing, and customer experience evaluation firm. Page title: Welcome To Kahn Research Group
	Fifth Conference on the Human Factors and the Web URL: http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/hfweb/index.html ODP description: 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. Page title: 5th Conference on the Human Factors & the Web -- The Future of Web Applications
	AnyBrowser.com URL: http://www.anybrowser.com/ ODP description: Web page viewer presents a site as it might be seen by visitors with different browsers. Page title: AnyBrowser.com - Your Source for Browser Compatibility Verification Page description: Improve your web site, check your HTML, browser compatibility & check for dead links. Improve ranking on search engines, increase hits & traffic
	Norman, Don: Human Centred Design URL: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/gratuitous_grap.html ODP description: Don Norman discusses the approach to usability when building his own website. This includes links to related content by Jakob Nielsen. Page title: Don Norman's jnd.org / Gratuitous Graphics and Human-Centered Website Design Page description: books by Don Norman, personal web page for Don Norman, of the Nielsen Norman Group and UNext, champion of human-centered design. Publications, papers, sample chapters and writings, list of students.
	Usability.gov URL: http://www.usability.gov/ ODP description: Provided by the National Cancer Institute. Includes information and resources on making web sites and other user interfaces more useful, usable, and accessible. News and current publications and additional links are provided.
	Spool, Jared: Hard Evidence from Research URL: http://www.ddj.com/184412959 ODP description: Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted Page title: Dr. Dobb's | Jared Spool Presents Hard Evidence | January 1, 2002 Page description: Jared Spool Presents Hard Evidence
	More Than Screen Deep URL: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/screen/index.html#contents ODP description: Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council convened a steering committee to evaluate and suggest fruitful directions for progress in user interfaces to computing and communications systems. A very informative site.
	Usable Webs URL: http://www.usablewebs.com/ ODP description: Information on basic web usability principles, including hints on helping search engines find your site. Web usability assessments and content development are available.
	Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More? URL: http://www.ddj.com/184412956 ODP description: When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more? Page title: Dr. Dobb's | Is Less Really More? | January 1, 2002 Page description: Is Less Really More?