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Web Usability Websites

Resources for web-page authors who want to make their sites easier for visitors to use.- Category ID : 56949
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Opquast

A list of best practices intended to improve the quality of on-line services.
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Web Pages That Suck

Learn good web page design by looking at bad web pages.
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Internet Brothers: Helpware for the Cybercommunity

Expanding web community by 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.
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Usable Web

Collection of links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
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Usefo.com

Web design resources, Usableword newsletter, and web usability guidelines to make web sites faster, more educational, and usable.
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HTML Authoring Tools

Provides free services to assist web authors who wish to make their information available to the largest audience.
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AnyBrowser.com

Web page viewer presents a site as it might be seen by visitors with different browsers.
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Lynx Friendly

The key to being Lynx Friendly is to be consciously aware of the HTML which goes into creating a web page and to ensure that those using a non-graphical browser are not ignored.
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Something 4 Nothing Web Pages

Tips for building pages which are visually pleasing, and yet still download quickly and make information easy to access. From Webdeveloper.com.
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Fifth Conference on the Human Factors and the Web

A forum for sharing information among a community of human factors engineers, designers, and developers who are interested in producing web sites that are more useful and usable. Site contains proceedings of the most recent (3/Jun/1999) conference and archives of all previous conferences.
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Theory

A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review.
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Usability.gov

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.
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100 Things to Do to Make a Better Site

List of several (actually, eight) ways to make a more user-friendly site. Also has other reader comments on the same topic.
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Art and the Zen of Web Sites

Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site.
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Usability First

Diamond Bullet Design offers their experience and knowledge on website and software usability.
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Starling Access Services

Interesting definition of Accessible Web Design. For use by "anyone, any web browsing technology and any site".
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ShoreWalker

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.
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A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype

Experiment by the Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS)finding a large number of usability problems that were identified and suggestions for correction.
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Web Development

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.
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Web Usability Findings

Compilation of surveys of web usability engineering and test results.
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eShopability

Provides design and usability information and advice on how to convert browsers into buyers and keep them, analysis and trends. Free fortnightly newsletter.
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AgeLight Institute

Guidelines written for webmasters, communicators and marketers to assist with website design for maximum usability for seniors and older internet users.
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Klariti Guide to Usability and Information Architecture

Directory contains over 500 links, mainly to scholarly articles.
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Hot Text: Web Writing That Works

Articles from trainer-writer team Jonathan and Lisa Price. Ideas and services for web writers, editors, and content managers.
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Vaspers the Grate: Web Credibility Destroyers

List of design issues that pollute an overall impression of trustworthiness and dependability.
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Vaspers the Grate

Insights into web writing, user-focused web design, and web credibility enhancement.
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Scottberkun.com

Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design.
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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.
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Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles

Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services.
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Jeffrey Veen: The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds

RSS feeds are surprisingly difficult for the average user to use.
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Adobe - Flash : Usability

Usability tips, examples, test case, quotes, related articles and a Flash forum for site developers.
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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.
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Universal Usability

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.
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alt tags - Muddling Through

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."
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IBM DeveloperWorks: Web Architecture

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.
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Nielsen Norman Group

Jakob Nielsen shares his thoughts on usability.
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Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More?

When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
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Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking

Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.
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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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Java Software Human Interface

Essential information about human interface design and usability for applications and applets written in the Java programming language.
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CNET.com - Study: Design lacking in e-tail sites

The design of some of the leading online stores is mediocre at best, but, according to a new study, it is improving.
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