Resources for web-page authors who want to make their sites easier for visitors to use.
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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.
Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly column on current issues in Web usability, focusing on simple and minimalist design based on real user needs.
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."
Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site.
Weblog by a practicing User Experience Architect. Usually about usability, design information architecture and e-business.
Provides design and usability information and advice on how to convert browsers into buyers and keep them, analysis and trends. Free fortnightly newsletter.
Articles from trainer-writer team Jonathan and Lisa Price. Ideas and services for web writers, editors, and content managers.
Provides free services to assist web authors who wish to make their information available to the largest audience.
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.
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.
Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site.
Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.
Jakob Nielsen shares his thoughts on usability.
A list of best practices intended to improve the quality of on-line services.
A mathematics educator's view of web design. Encourages speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability. Discusses difficulties of math typesetting on the web.
When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets.
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.
Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design.
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.
Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted
"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.
A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review.
Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services.
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.
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.
Diamond Bullet Design offers their experience and knowledge on website and software usability.
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.
Collection of links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
Web design resources, Usableword newsletter, and web usability guidelines to make web sites faster, more educational, and usable.
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.
Learn good web page design by looking at bad web pages.
Compilation of surveys of web usability engineering and test results.
The design of some of the leading online stores is mediocre at best, but, according to a new study, it is improving.
(June 03, 2002)
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.
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.
A mathematics educator's view of web design. Encourages speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability. Discusses difficulties of math typesetting on the web.
Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly column on current issues in Web usability, focusing on simple and minimalist design based on real user needs.
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.
Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets.
Jakob Nielsen shares his thoughts on usability.
When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site.
Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted
"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.
Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.
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.
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.
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."
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.
A list of best practices intended to improve the quality of on-line services.
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.
Articles from trainer-writer team Jonathan and Lisa Price. Ideas and services for web writers, editors, and content managers.
Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site.
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.
Provides free services to assist web authors who wish to make their information available to the largest audience.
Compilation of surveys of web usability engineering and test results.
Learn good web page design by looking at bad web pages.
Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design.
Provides design and usability information and advice on how to convert browsers into buyers and keep them, analysis and trends. Free fortnightly newsletter.
Web design resources, Usableword newsletter, and web usability guidelines to make web sites faster, more educational, and usable.
A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review.
Weblog by a practicing User Experience Architect. Usually about usability, design information architecture and e-business.
Diamond Bullet Design offers their experience and knowledge on website and software usability.
List of several (actually, eight) ways to make a more user-friendly site. Also has other reader comments on the same topic.
Collection of links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services.
The design of some of the leading online stores is mediocre at best, but, according to a new study, it is improving.
(June 03, 2002)
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