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IBM DeveloperWorks: Web Architecture - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/
Offering tools needed to understand usability and accessibility issues. Includes materials that can help you create user-centered applications and gain insight into accessibility challenges. |
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Usable Web - http://usableweb.com/
Collection of links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web. |
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WebMetric Tools - http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/WebTools/
Good usability is vital to the success of any web site. This site has downloadable sets of web evaluation tools to assist in analysis of a web page based on numerous usability guidelines. Registration is required (free). |
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Starling Access Services - http://www.starlingweb.com/webac.htm
Interesting definition of Accessible Web Design. For use by "anyone, any web browsing technology and any site". |
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All Things Web: The Usable Web - http://www.pantos.org/atw/usable.html
Tips and techniques for building reader-friendly Web pages. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Scottberkun.com - http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/
Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design. |
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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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Vaspers the Grate - http://vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com/
Insights into web writing, user-focused web design, and web credibility enhancement. |
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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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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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Bohmann Usability - http://www.bohmann.dk/observations/
News weblog covering web usability in Europe. |
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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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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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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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Usability Engineering - http://www.consult-me.co.uk/csc-usability-engineering-page.htm
"Designing for Ease Use", Article written by Corporate Solutions Consulting (UK)on usability engineering. |
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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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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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A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype - http://stats.bls.gov/ore/htm_papers/st960160.htm
Experiment by the Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS)finding a large number of usability problems that were identified and suggestions for correction. |
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Morville, Peter: Building a Synonymous Search Index - http://www.ddj.com/184412944
Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site. |
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Something 4 Nothing Web Pages - http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_something_4_nothing.html
Tips for building pages which are visually pleasing, and yet still download quickly and make information easy to access. From Webdeveloper.com. |
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WDVL: Usability Testing in Practice - http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Design/UsabilityTesting/
Reveals one company's usability testing practices and procesures. |
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alt tags - Muddling Through - http://www.alttags.org/usability/muddling-through/
Web site designers should think hard about how to keep users from muddling around on their sites. "Users muddle when it isn’t clear what they are supposed to do in any given situation." |
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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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Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking - http://www.ddj.com/184412896
Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing. |
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Rosenfeld, Lou: Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo! - http://www.ddj.com/184412919
Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets. |
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BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2041040.stm
Web design 'causes confusion' - Web designers are not on the same wavelength as surfers when it comes to creating sites, says a US study. |
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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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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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Spool, Jared: Hard Evidence from Research - http://www.ddj.com/184412959
Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted |
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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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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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Publish.com - Flash and Usability - http://www.publish.com/article2/0,,1757914,00.asp
Guidelines for usable Flash, By Ilise Benun. |
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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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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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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. |