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Resources and links on web design and usability.
Morville, Peter: Building a Synonymous Search Index
Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site.
Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking
Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.
Navigation 101
A simple, understandable navigation scheme is a critical aspect of site design and has a direct effect on the bottom line.
Nielsen, Jakob: Feedback From Users of an Archive
How to collect usability data from site users, using a historical archive as the case study. Keep surveys simple, collect data from real-world usage, and get feedback from friends of the site.
Nielsen, Jakob: Frames Suck Most of the Time
Why frames are usually a very bad idea.
Nielsen, Jakob: Guerrilla HCI
Guerrilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier
Nielsen, Jakob: Multimedia Guidelines
A broad set of guidelines for multimedia on the web.
Nielsen, Jakob: Print design vs. Web design
Dr. Jakob Nielsen highlights key differences between designing for print and designing for the web.
Nielsen, Jakob: Site Map Usability
Most site maps fail to convey multiple levels of the site's information architecture. In usability tests, users often overlook site maps or can't find them. Complexity is also a problem: a map should be a map, not a navigational challenge of its own.
Nielsen, Jakob: Web design vs. GUI design
Designing for the Web is different from traditional user interface design. Fundamentally, the designer gives up a lot of control to the user - get used to it: WYSIWYG is dead
Nielsen Norman Group
Reports and columns on usability and human interface design by Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, and Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini.
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
Pointafter.com - 20 Do's and Don'ts of Web Usability
Tips from George Prociuk.
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.
Publish.com - Flash and Usability
Guidelines for usable Flash, By Ilise Benun.
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.
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.
Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More?
When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
Rosenfeld, Lou: Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo!
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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