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Collection of links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly column on current issues in Web usability, focusing on simple and minimalist design based on real user needs.
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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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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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Learn good web page design by looking at bad web pages.
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Tips and techniques for building reader-friendly Web pages.
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Web design resources, Usableword newsletter, and web usability guidelines to make web sites faster, more educational, and usable.
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Provides free services to assist web authors who wish to make their information available to the largest audience.
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Web page viewer presents a site as it might be seen by visitors with different browsers.
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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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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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Usability and human factors for the Internet. Including book list, expert articles and interviews, and recommended sites.
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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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The UPA's purpose is to promote usability concepts and techniques worldwide.
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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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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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A behavioral research, usability testing, and customer experience evaluation firm.
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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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A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review.
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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.
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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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Jakob Nielsen shares his thoughts on usability.
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Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site.
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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.
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, Article written by Corporate Solutions Consulting (UK)on usability engineering.
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Diamond Bullet Design offers their experience and knowledge on website and software usability.
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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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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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Development of new technologies in graphics, usability and visualization.
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Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin. Excellent guidelines for universal web design.
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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.
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by Jonas LAśwgren is available for download in PDF format.
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Illnesses make websites inefficient. The cures, by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson:Web Marketing Today, Issue 41, February 1, 1998.
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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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An Interview with JavaScript Guru, Mr. Danny Goodman on how JavaScript can make a web site easier to use.
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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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Compilation of surveys of web usability engineering and test results.
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A comprehensive resource page on UI Design, maintained by Craig Marion, the webmaster of Chester County Internet Services.
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Focuses on furthering the education of web related topics, including web design and navigation tips, advice and techniques.
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Examines what's wrong with the usability movement, with some humour, and experiences from the coal face of software design.
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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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Reveals one company's usability testing practices and procesures.
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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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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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These tips are provided to help you improve the interaction between humans and computers in your web design.
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Users want indicators of how good (e.e., current, accurate, credible) the page's information is.
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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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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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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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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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A listing of the most popular methods for determining usability, including the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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Essential information about human interface design and usability for applications and applets written in the Java programming language.
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Directory contains over 500 links, mainly to scholarly articles.
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Reports and columns on usability and human interface design by Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, and Bruce 'T