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56 sites in Web Usability |
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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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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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Ilise Benun elaborates on the principles of consistency, interaction, instruction, choices and control. (Publish.com)
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When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
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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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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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"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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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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Don Norman discusses the approach to usability when building his own website. This includes links to related content by Jakob Nielsen.
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Usability tips, examples, test case, quotes, related articles and a Flash forum for site developers.
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RSS feeds are surprisingly difficult for the average user to use.
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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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Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services.
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Interview detailing the approach to web usability in Hong Kong.
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Describes an experiment carried out to monitor the eye movements of visitors to a prototype web site.
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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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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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Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design.
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Weblog by a practicing User Experience Architect. Usually about usability, design information architecture and e-business.
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News weblog covering web usability in Europe.
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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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Insights into web writing, user-focused web design, and web credibility enhancement.
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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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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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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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Directory contains over 500 links, mainly to scholarly articles.
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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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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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These tips are provided to help you improve the interaction between humans and computers in your web design.
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Reveals one company's usability testing practices and procesures.
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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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Focuses on furthering the education of web related topics, including web design and navigation tips, advice and techniques.
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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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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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An Interview with JavaScript Guru, Mr. Danny Goodman on how JavaScript can make a web site easier to use.
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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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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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Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin. Excellent guidelines for universal web design.
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Interesting definition of Accessible Web Design. For use by "anyone, any web browsing technology and any site".
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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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Diamond Bullet Design offers their experience and knowledge on website and software usability.
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Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site.
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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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A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review.
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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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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 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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Usability and human factors for the Internet. Including book list, expert articles and interviews, and recommended sites.
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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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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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Provides free services to assist web authors who wish to make their information available to the largest audience.
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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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Learn good web page design by looking at bad web pages.
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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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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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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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