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."
AnyBrowser.com
Web page viewer presents a site as it might be seen by visitors with different browsers.
Art and the Zen of Web Sites
Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site.
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.
Bohmann Usability
News weblog covering web usability in Europe.
Business Benefits of Accessible Web Design
Describes the many business and technical benefits that are realised by applying the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to Web applications.
Comparison of Usability Evaluation Methods
A listing of the most popular methods for determining usability, including the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Conference on Usability Tools and Techniques
A summary from the conference sponsored by AT&T Labs. The goal is to develop software tools and techniques for evaluating the usability of web sites.
Croc O' Lyle
Weblog by a practicing User Experience Architect. Usually about usability, design information architecture and e-business.
Daily Blooper
Showcases examples of poor web interface design from real web sites. The aim is to teach good (user-centered) design by showing what not to do.
Designing a More Usable World
Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin. Excellent guidelines for universal web design.
Designing Information-Abundant Web Sites
This article is extracted and adapted from Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction 3rd edn., Reading, MA: Addison Wesley (forthcoming). Longman Publishers, Copyright 1998.
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.
eShopability
Provides design and usability information and advice on how to convert browsers into buyers and keep them, analysis and trends. Free fortnightly newsletter.
Eyetools Research
Greg Edwards on design and content optimization through eyetrack testing: measuring what people read, look at, skip, and ignore on webpages.
Fifth Conference on the Human Factors and the Web
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.
Fluff and Contenders, Revisited
A monthly web zine for professional web writers and editors who create content for the web. This archived article, April 1999, is a follow-up of the April 1998 "Cut the Fluff" in designing web sites and suggest not to "lose sight of usability and functionality".
GUI Bloopers
Home for Jeff Johnson's book "GUI Bloopers". Covers problems with text, graphics, interactive dialog and web design. Table of contents available for viewing, and Chapter 4 ("textual bloopers") available for download.
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.
GVU: The Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center
Development of new technologies in graphics, usability and visualization.
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