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Covers every area of good site design as well as what not to do. Steers you away from hype and towards more practical, user-friendly Web design. Based in Australia.
http://www.shorewalker.com/ |
SIGCHI World Wide Web Special Interest Area
WWWSIA is a subgroup of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). It focuses on the human factors of the World Wide Web.
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/webhci/ |
Something 4 Nothing Web Pages
Tips for building pages which are visually pleasing, and yet still download quickly and make information easy to access. From Webdeveloper.com.
http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_something_4_nothing.html |
Spool, Jared: Hard Evidence from Research
Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2894/nam1012433859/ |
Starling Access Services
Interesting definition of Accessible Web Design. For use by "anyone, any web browsing technology and any site".
http://www.starlingweb.com/webac.htm |
STC SIG - 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.
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/ |
Stevesdomain.net
Focuses on furthering the education of web related topics, including web design and navigation tips, advice and techniques.
http://www.stevesdomain.net/ |
Theory
A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review.
http://www.merges.net/theory/ |
100 Things to Do to Make a Better Site
List of several (actually, eight) ways to make a more user-friendly site. Also has other reader comments on the same topic.
http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/100-things |
Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles
Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services.
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html |
Usability Engineering
"Designing for Ease Use", Article written by Corporate Solutions Consulting (UK)on usability engineering.
http://www.consult-me.co.uk/csc-usability-engineering-page.htm |
Usability First
Diamond Bullet Design offers their experience and knowledge on website and software usability.
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/ |
Usability Matters
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.
http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um/ |
Usability Must Die
Examines what's wrong with the usability movement, with some humour, and experiences from the coal face of software design.
http://www.usabilitymustdie.com |
Usability Watch India
Blog on usability of software and websites through the eyes of Suman kumar.
http://sumankumar.com/usability/ |
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