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A List Apart - The Perfect 404 Ian Lloyd gives strategies for building custom 404 error pages that enhance usability. Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: News and Media Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Weblogs www.alistapart.com/articles/perfect404 - cached - |
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Alertbox Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly column on current issues in Web usability, focusing on simple and minimalist design based on real user needs. Search in Category: Business: E-Commerce: News and Media: Newsletters Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Personal Pages Search in Category: Reference: Knowledge Management: Information Architecture Search in Category: World: Dansk: Kultur: Medier: Web www.useit.com/alertbox - |
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Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Personal Pages www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html - cached - |
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Usability Professionals' Association The UPA's purpose is to promote usability concepts and techniques worldwide. Search in Category: Science: Social Sciences: Psychology: Industrial and Organizational: Human Factors and Ergonomics: Professional Organizations www.upassoc.org - cached - |
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Usability.gov 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. www.usability.gov - cached - |
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Useit.com Jakob Nielsen shares his thoughts on usability. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Personal Pages Search in Category: Reference: Knowledge Management: Information Architecture Search in Category: World: Dansk: Kultur: Medier: Web www.useit.com - |
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Web Pages That Suck Learn good web page design by looking at bad web pages. Search in Category: Computers: Internet: On the Web: Worst of the Web www.webpagesthatsuck.com - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - |
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7 Debilitating Diseases of Business Websites Illnesses make websites inefficient. The cures, by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson:Web Marketing Today, Issue 41, February 1, 1998. Search in Category: Business: Marketing and Advertising: Internet Marketing: Resources www.wilsonweb.com/articles/7diseases.htm - published: Feb 01 1998 - cached - |
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A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype Experiment by the Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS)finding a large number of usability problems that were identified and suggestions for correction. Search in Category: Business: Employment: Careers: Surveys and Statistics Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Government: Executive Branch: Department of Labor Search in Category: Science: Social Sciences: Economics: Indicators and Statistics: Official Statistics: North America: United States Search in Category: Society: Law: Legal Information: Labor and Employment Law: Government Agencies stats.bls.gov/ore/htm_papers/st960160.htm - published: Jul 19 2008 - cached - |
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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." Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Companies and Consultants www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000328.php - indexed: 3 days ago - published: Jun 16 2004 - cached - |
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Adobe - Flash : Usability Usability tips, examples, test case, quotes, related articles and a Flash forum for site developers. Search in Category: Computers: Multimedia: Software: Adobe Flash: Resources Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: News and Media Search in Category: Computers: Companies: Adobe Systems, Inc. Search in Category: Computers: Multimedia: Software Search in Category: Computers: Software: Graphics: Companies Search in Category: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Mac OS: Graphics Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: California: Localities: S: San Jose: Business and Economy: Computers and Internet: Software www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/testing_usability.html - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - |
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AnyBrowser.com Web page viewer presents a site as it might be seen by visitors with different browsers. www.anybrowser.com - cached - |
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BBC News Web design 'causes confusion' - Web designers are not on the same wavelength as surfers when it comes to creating sites, says a US study. Search in Category: Kids and Teens: School Time: Science: News Search in Category: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Science and Environment: News and Media Search in Category: Science: News and Media Search in Category: Arts: Television: News Search in Category: News Search in Category: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Arts and Entertainment: Television: Broadcasters: Cable, Satellite and Terrestrial Digital: News and Finance Search in Category: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Arts and Entertainment: Television: News news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2041040.stm - published: Sep 10 2002 - cached - |
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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. Search in Category: Business: Information Technology: News and Media Search in Category: Science: Technology: News and Media news.cnet.com/2100-1017-931274.html - indexed: 4 days ago - modified: 5 days ago - cached - |
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Hot Text: Web Writing That Works Articles from trainer-writer team Jonathan and Lisa Price. Ideas and services for web writers, editors, and content managers. Search in Category: Arts: Writers Resources: FAQs, Help, and Tutorials www.webwritingthatworks.com - cached - |
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Java Software Human Interface Essential information about human interface design and usability for applications and applets written in the Java programming language. Search in Category: Computers: Programming: Languages: Java java.sun.com/developer/techDocs/hi - indexed: 5 days ago - cached - |
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Opquast A list of best practices intended to improve the quality of on-line services. www.opquast.com - indexed: 3 days ago - modified: 1 month ago - cached - |
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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. Search in Category: Computers: Programming: Internet: Resources Search in Category: Kids and Teens: Computers: Web Page Design: CGI and Programming www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_something_4_nothing.html - indexed: 3 days ago - modified: 8 months ago - cached - |
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Stevesdomain.net Focuses on furthering the education of web related topics, including web design and navigation tips, advice and techniques. www.stevesdomain.net - cached - |
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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. Search in Category: Computers: Programming: Magazines and E-zines www.ddj.com/web-development/184413077 - indexed: 3 days ago - published: Jan 01 2002 - cached - |
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Universal Usability 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. www.universalusability.com - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - |
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Usability First Diamond Bullet Design offers their experience and knowledge on website and software usability. www.usabilityfirst.com - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - |
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Usable Web Collection of links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web. www.usableweb.com - cached - |
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Usable Webs Information on basic web usability principles, including hints on helping search engines find your site. Web usability assessments and content development are available. www.usablewebs.com - cached - |
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Web Development 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. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Companies and Consultants www.december.com/web/develop.html - cached - |
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Web Usability Articles Several years of usability-related articles from Digital Web Magazine. Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: News and Media Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Oregon: Localities: B: Beaverton: Business and Economy: Computers and Internet www.digital-web.com/topics/usability - cached - |
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WebWord Usability Consulting Usability and human factors for the Internet. Including book list, expert articles and interviews, and recommended sites. www.webword.com - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - |
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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. philip.greenspun.com/wtr/100-things - published: 10 months ago - cached - | |
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All Things Web: The Usable Web Tips and techniques for building reader-friendly Web pages. Search in Category: Computers: Software: Internet: Directories www.pantos.org/atw/usable.html - | |
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Art and the Zen of Web Sites Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site. www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.shtml - published: Dec 31 2002 - cached - | |
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Croc O' Lyle Weblog by a practicing User Experience Architect. Usually about usability, design information architecture and e-business. crocolyle.blogspot.com - cached - | |
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Designing a More Usable World Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin. Excellent guidelines for universal web design. Search in Category: Society: Disabled: Assistive Technology: Computers trace.wisc.edu/world - published: Jan 08 2007 - cached - | |
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Don't Link to Us Highlights stupid linking policies by linking to web sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them. Search in Category: Society: Law: Legal Information: Computer and Technology Law: Internet: Linking Law www.dontlink.com - published: Sep 16 2002 - cached - | |
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eShopability Provides design and usability information and advice on how to convert browsers into buyers and keep them, analysis and trends. Free fortnightly newsletter. www.eshopability.com - cached - | |
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Eyetools Research Greg Edwards on design and content optimization through eyetrack testing: measuring what people read, look at, skip, and ignore on webpages. blog.eyetools.net - published: May 20 2005 - cached - | |
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HTML Authoring Tools Provides free services to assist web authors who wish to make their information available to the largest audience. www.delorie.com/web - cached - | |
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Human Factors International - Web Usability Tips These tips are provided to help you improve the interaction between humans and computers in your web design. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Companies and Consultants www.humanfactors.com/downloads/10tips.asp - cached - | |
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Internet Brothers: Helpware for the Cybercommunity 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. Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Organizations www.internetbrothers.com - | |
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Jeffrey Veen: The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds RSS feeds are surprisingly difficult for the average user to use. Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Web Usability: People www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000733.html - published: May 26 2005 - cached - | |
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Navigation 101 A simple, understandable navigation scheme is a critical aspect of site design and has a direct effect on the bottom line. Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Authoring: Webmaster Resources www.wdvl.com/Location/Navigation/101 - indexed: 6 days ago - cached - | |
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Nielsen Norman Group Reports and columns on usability and human interface design by Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, and Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Companies and Consultants www.nngroup.com/reports - | |
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Norman, Don: Human Centred Design Don Norman discusses the approach to usability when building his own website. This includes links to related content by Jakob Nielsen. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Personal Pages Search in Category: Science: Social Sciences: Cognitive Science: Cognitive Scientists www.jnd.org/dn.mss/gratuitous_grap.html - published: Dec 01 2002 - cached - | |
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Publish.com - Flash and Usability Guidelines for usable Flash, By Ilise Benun. Search in Category: Business: Publishing and Printing: Publishing: Electronic www.publish.com/article2/0,,1757914,00.asp - | |
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Roger C. Parker - Eleven Common Web Page Design Frustrations and How To Cure Them How to keep web page design from interfering with communication to visitors. www.newentrepreneur.com/Resources/Articles/12_Com_Mis/12_com_mis.html - cached - | |
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Schroeder, Will: Testing Web Sites with Eye-Tracking Describes an experiment carried out to monitor the eye movements of visitors to a prototype web site. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Companies and Consultants www.uie.com/articles/eye_tracking - indexed: 3 days ago - published: Sep 01 1998 - cached - | |
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Scottberkun.com Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design. www.scottberkun.com/essays - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - | |
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Some Simple Techniques In Making Your Website Accessible Tutorial by Andrew Pae, Technical Coordinator at the ADAPTS Office at Georgia Tech. General design principles plus resources for additional information. www.adapts.gatech.edu/general_resources/webaccess.htm - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - | |
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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 Search in Category: Computers: Programming: Magazines and E-zines www.ddj.com/184412959 - published: Jan 01 2002 - cached - | |
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Starling Access Services Interesting definition of Accessible Web Design. For use by "anyone, any web browsing technology and any site". Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Accessibility: Companies and Consultants www.starlingweb.com/webac.htm - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - | |
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Szuc, Daniel: Usability in Hong Kong Interview detailing the approach to web usability in Hong Kong. www.webword.com/interviews/szuc.html - indexed: 3 days ago - published: Feb 04 2002 - cached - | |
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The WDVL: Designing Attractive Web Pages 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. Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Authoring: Webmaster Resources www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Pages - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - | |
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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. Search in Category: Computers: Computer Science: Academic Departments: Europe: Sweden www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um - indexed: 5 days ago - modified: 23 days ago - cached - | |
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Usability Must Die Examines what's wrong with the usability movement, with some humour, and experiences from the coal face of software design. www.usabilitymustdie.com - cached - | |
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User-Friendly Web Sites for All Ages, Microsoft PressPass 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. Search in Category: Computers: Companies: Microsoft Corporation Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Washington: Localities: R: Redmond: Business and Economy: Computers and Internet Search in Category: World: Polski: Komputery: Firmy www.microsoft.com/PressPass/press/1999/May99/GuidelinePR.asp - indexed: 5 days ago - published: May 12 1999 - cached - | |
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Vaspers the Grate Insights into web writing, user-focused web design, and web credibility enhancement. vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com - cached - | |
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WDVL: Usability Testing in Practice Reveals one company's usability testing practices and procesures. Search in Category: Kids and Teens: Computers: Web Page Design wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Design/UsabilityTesting - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - | |
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Web Usability International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Special issue of WWW Usability arising from a symposium entitled "The Missing Link: Hypermedia Usability Research and The Web". ijhcs.open.ac.uk - cached - | |
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AgeLight Institute Guidelines written for webmasters, communicators and marketers to assist with website design for maximum usability for seniors and older internet users. www.agelight.com/Resources/webdesign.htm - indexed: 3 days ago - published: May 27 2005 - cached - | |
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alt tags - 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." www.alttags.org/usability/muddling-through - published: Jun 29 2004 - cached - | |
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Bohmann Usability News weblog covering web usability in Europe. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Companies and Consultants www.bohmann.dk/observations - published: Mar 01 2002 - cached - | |
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Five Usability Principles For Web Design Ilise Benun elaborates on the principles of consistency, interaction, instruction, choices and control. (Publish.com) Search in Category: Business: Publishing and Printing: Publishing: Electronic www.publish.com/c/a/Graphics-Tools/Five-usability-principles-for-Web-design - cached - | |
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Guide to Usability for Software Engineers (GUSE) Pages collected by the University of Maryland, Masters of Software Engineering. These guidelines will assist software engineers to create effective user interfaces. otal.umd.edu/guse - indexed: 5 days ago - published: Nov 17 1998 - cached - | |
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IBM DeveloperWorks: Web Architecture 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. www-136.ibm.com/developerworks/web - indexed: 4 days ago - | |
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Jef Raskin A site by and about Jef Raskin, interactive systems design expert. jef.raskincenter.org - | |
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Klariti Guide to Usability and Information Architecture Directory contains over 500 links, mainly to scholarly articles. Search in Category: Reference: Knowledge Management: Information Architecture www.klariti.com/information-architecture - published: May 01 1997 - cached - | |
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Lynx Friendly 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. Search in Category: Computers: Computer Science: Academic Departments: North America: Canada Search in Category: Reference: Education: Colleges and Universities: North America: Canada: Manitoba: University of Manitoba: Departments and Programs www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~djc/personal/lynxfriend.html - published: Jul 08 2003 - cached - | |
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Pointafter.com - 20 Do's and Don'ts of Web Usability Tips from George Prociuk. www.pointafter.com/Archives/nl0204.htm - cached - | |
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Readability Of Websites With Various Foreground/Background Color Combinations, Font Types And Word Styles 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. hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html - indexed: 3 days ago - | |
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Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard From the consultants of Human Factors International. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Companies and Consultants www.humanfactors.com/downloads/webstandards.pdf - | |
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ShoreWalker Covers every area of site design as well as what not to do. Steers the user away from hype and towards more practical, user-friendly Web design. Based in Australia. www.shorewalker.com - cached - | |
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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. Search in Category: Arts: Writers Resources: Non-Fiction: Technical Writing: Associations: Society for Technical Communication: Special Interest Groups www.stcsig.org/usability - published: Jun 11 2007 - cached - | |
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Theory A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review. www.merges.net/theory - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - | |
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Usability Engineering "Designing for Ease Use", Article written by Corporate Solutions Consulting (UK)on usability engineering. Search in Category: Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Companies and Consultants www.consult-me.co.uk/csc-usability-engineering-page.htm - cached - | |
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Web Usability Findings Compilation of surveys of web usability engineering and test results. www-personal.umich.edu/~bing/oversite/webusefind.html - cached - | |
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Webmaster's Corner A commentary on web usability, design, and direction aimed at the beginning web developer. www.newramp.com/webmasters/archive.asp - published: May 31 2005 - cached - | |
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Analysis: Web sites are locking out the disabled Not every company sees accessibility as a smart business decision, but those that do not could find themselves in trouble with the law. Last year, the National Federation of the Blind filed suit against America Online, arguing that because AOL's software does not work with screen readers, the service violates the ADA. Under Title III of the act, passed in 1990, all "public accommodations" must provide reasonable access to persons with disabilities. In 1996, the Department of Justice ruled that ... Search in Category: Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Accessibility archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/07/web.site.accessibility.idg - indexed: 5 days ago - published: Aug 04 2000 - cached - | |
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Usefo.com Web design resources, Usableword newsletter, and web usability guidelines to make web sites faster, more educational, and usable. www.patsula.com/usefo - published: Feb 01 2002 - cached - | |
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Vaspers the Grate: Web Credibility Destroyers List of design issues that pollute an overall impression of trustworthiness and dependability. vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com/2004/06/web-credibility-destroyers.html - published: Jun 01 2004 - cached - | |
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Principia Hypertextica: Introduction A mathematics educator's view of web design. Encourages speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability. Discusses difficulties of math typesetting on the web. Search in Category: Reference: Education: Colleges and Universities: North America: United States: Michigan: Central Michigan University: Colleges and Departments www.cst.cmich.edu/users/chaff1ra/m132/WWW/type - indexed: 4 days ago - published: Jun 26 1997 - cached - | |
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WebMetric Tools 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). zing.ncsl.nist.gov/WebTools - indexed: 3 days ago - published: May 11 2005 - cached - | |
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5th Conference on the Human Factors & the Web -- The Future of ... About the Conference The fifth in a series of Human Factors and the Web conferences will be held on Thursday, June 3, 1999 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. This year's conference will be hosted by NIST and sponsored, in part, by AT&T Labs, ORACLE Corporation, National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD), and Bell Atlantic Corporation. The first four conferences were sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories (March 1996), Microsoft ... zing.ncsl.nist.gov/hfweb - indexed: 3 days ago - cached - | |
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