Apr 242006
In no particular order here are some link to usability resources, don’t hesitate to complete it ;)
Flash Usability
Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen’s Newsletter
Heuristic Evaluation
Usability News
Usability News 2/
Usability News 3/
Adaptive path » user experience publications
Web Pages That Suck
Web Design from Scratch
InfoDesign
Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites
Usability Research Lab
WebWord
Usability Views
Webcredible
Isys Information Architects
Universal Usability in Practice
Guild of Accessible Web Designers
Usability and user centred design resources to practitioners
IBM Usability and design
I’ll try to keep updating this list as long as possible but you can also directly connect to my del.icio.us on usability.
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Usability Self Assessment Tool
Nice resource of links to uability.
We advice to everyone read the book Jacob Nielsen – Designing Web Usability The Practice of Simplicity and Sanjay Koyani – Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines. Great books
good resource, thanks!
Thanks for the resources mate. I’m especially curious to see how the flash usability turns out.
[...] Even if this year the theme is health, it is a good time to check our website for usability issues, more and more visitors expect to have an usable website (also in terms of accessibility). One year ago I had set up a usability resources list so if you need to refresh your knowledge about usability you know where to go ;) [...]
[...] Do not forget about usability and accessibility. Usability is to create the most simple user interface; there are a lot of books and website on that topic. If you do not have a specific budget for usability, simply ask your friends and family to do some tasks on your website model (paper is ok), see how long it takes, if they failed, where frustrated and so one. Solve those points. Also while designing the web site, think about the iconography: what does this icon mean to everybody? Accessibility is to allow people with handicap to access your web site. For example think about screen reader for people with vision handicap, think about the color, the size of fonts… Here is a list of resources about usability. [...]