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Annotated Usability Links

Acknowledged experts

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site (Usable Information Technology) +++regularly updated column, archive of older writing AskTog Bruce Tognazzini, formerly of Apple, author, articles, commentary Don Norman & User Centered Development Author of The Design of Everyday Things, CV style list of publications

Primers and Guides

Usability Toolbox personal site, good primer, defines methods and when to apply them www.usabilityfirst.com/ online guide, goms, methods usability.gov/index.html guidelines, links User Test Your Web Site: An Introduction to Usability Testing basic methods

Recommended
Collections of articles, tips, models of design processes

www.vineyard.net/biz/drdeb/: company, diagrams of design process
www.frontend....ps/index.html: company site, many articles, tips
webword.com/: personal site with articles. links, applying usability to other subjects like advertising
www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/: interdisciplinary program in Human Factors, papers

Human Factors International: articles, also usability issues for things besides computers; phone systems, ballots
world.std.com...b/moreart.htm: articles, prototyping tips, usability bibliography, conceptual models
Software Usability Research Laboratory: experimental findings, articles
www.cio.com/f...vior/hci.html: research center, articles
www-3.ibm.com: many articles, managing, promoting usability
Welcome to Usability News -Winter 2001: publication, articles on usability and web
Bad Human Factors Designs: entertaining examples
www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/: personal site, UML-like modeling of web sites
www.cl.cam.ac...ons/VL99.html: personal site, articles by site owner
www.goodexperience.com/: article collection
shame.htm: Diagnosis of usability problems in interfaces, captures of problem interfaces, contributions from readers also
www.jjg.net/ia/elements.pdf: A model of relation of visual, interface, interaction, navigation in web design
InteractionArchitect.com - The knowledge base for interaction architects: Collection of articles by the webmaster
UML from W. Hudson: PDF on using UML and surveys of usability methods employed
Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology: defining pattern languages, not a collection of patterns
Experiences -- A Pattern Language for User Interface Design: matches content to interaction, graphical map of patterns
Common Ground: matches content to interaction, defines pattern language of design (design principles)
Usability Pattern Collection: design strategies, strategies are discrete combinations of interaction, display and heuristic

Collections of Links