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- Krug, Steve: Advanced Common Sense - Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, provides consulting services including expert reviews of existing sites and new designs, usability workshops, and usability testing.
www.sensible.com
- 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.
www.webreview.com/1998/10_30/developers/10_30_98_1.shtml
- Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking - Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.
www.webreview.com/1999/01_01/strategists/01_01_99_3.shtml
- 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.
www.useit.com/alertbox/990110.html
- Nielsen, Jakob: Frames Suck Most of the Time - Why frames are usually a very bad idea.
www.useit.com/alertbox/9612.html
- Nielsen, Jakob: Guerrilla HCI - Guerrilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier
www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html
- Nielsen, Jakob: Multimedia Guidelines - A broad set of guidelines for multimedia on the web.
www.useit.com/alertbox/9512.html
- Nielsen, Jakob: Print design vs. Web design - Dr. Jakob Nielsen highlights key differences between designing for print and designing for the web.
www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html
- 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.
www.useit.com/alertbox/20020106.html
- 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
www.useit.com/alertbox/9705a.html
- 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
www.jnd.org/dn.mss/hcd_website_design.html
- Rosenfeld & Morville - Web Architect Archive - 1999 archive of feature articles from Web Architect magazine
www.argus-inc.com/features/webarch.shtml
- Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More? - When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
www.webreview.com/1998/10_02/strategists/10_02_98_5.shtml
- 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.
www.webreview.com/1998/12_04/strategists/12_04_98_2.shtml
- Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard -- PDF File - From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.
www.humanfactors.com/downloads/webstandards.pdf
- Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard -- PDF file - From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.
www.humanfactors.com/downloads/guistandards.pdf
- 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.
world.std.com/~uieweb/eyetrack1.htm
- 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
www.webreview.com/1998/09_25/strategists/09_23_98_1.shtml
- Spool, Jared: Web Graphic Design Is Not What You Think, A Usability Perspective - "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.
www.webreview.com/1998/09_25/strategists/09_24_98_1.shtml
- Szuc, Daniel: Usability in Hong Kong - Interview detailing the approach to web usability in Hong Kong.
webword.com/interviews/szuc.html
- Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles - Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services.
www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
- Various: WebWord Interviews with the Experts - Site includes usability articles written by John S. Rhodes. This page is a good starting point.
webword.com/interviews/index.html
- Veen, Jeffrey: Homepage - Jeffrey Veen is the author of "The Art & Science of Web Design". His home page features details of the book and other links.
www.veen.com/jeff
- Nielsen, Jakob: Papers and Essays - Online papers by Jakob Nielsen.
www.useit.com/papers
- Rosenfeld, Louis: Information Architecture Revealed - Interview with Louis Rosenfeld.
webword.com/interviews/rosenfeld.html
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