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Abacus Web Usability - Consultants to help you improve the user friendliness of your web site.
Accessible Web - A guide to creating accessible web pages and downloadable documents. From the University of Newcastle, Australia.
AgeLight Institute - Guidelines written for webmasters, communicators and marketers to assist with website design for maximum usability for seniors and older internet users.
Alertbox - Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly column on current issues in Web usability, focusing on web page design and simple and minimalist design based on real user needs.
All Things Web: The Usable Web - Tips and techniques for building reader-friendly Web pages.
AnyBrowser.com - The place to find out how to make your web site viewable, usable and informative for the majority of your visitors. Their web page viewer allows you to see your page as it might be seen by visitors with different browsers.
Art and the Zen of Web Sites - Suggestions and guidelines for putting together a usable and attractive web site.
Beta Research, Inc. - Consulting and research in human factors, ergonomics, usability, and safety in product and system design. Located in Los Gatos, CA.
Bobby - A free service provided by CAST to help Web page authors identify and repair significant barriers to access by individuals with disabilities.
Bohmann Usability - European-based user experience consulting. Including articles and news about Web page design and usability.
Building a Better Interface - To help bring you up to speed on the current state of the art in Web page design and usability, Dan Shafer interviewed three of the smartest people on the subject: Jakob Nielsen, David Kleinberg, and Jared Spool. For good measure, he throws in his own thoughts on the topic.
Comparison of Usability Evaluation Methods - A listing of the most popular methods for determining usability, including the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Daily Blooper - Showcases examples of poor web page interface design from real web sites. The aim is to teach good (user-centered) design by showing what not to do.
Design Considerations - Web page design for readers with visual impairments. General design principles and resources for additional information.
Designing a More Usable World - Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin. Excellent guidelines for universal web page design.
Designing Usable Web Sites for the Disabled - Selection of links from AlaLA and Reference and Adult Services Round Table. Links to find information on tools, browser design, model accessible web sites and major ongoing programs addressing web page design and site usability.
DeveloperWorks: Usability - 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.
Dos and Don'ts of Web Design - Web page design and development advice from Professional Developer and University of South Florida Web Design Instructor, Stacey Sulikowski.
Educorner - Online introductory course on Information Architecture, (making a website easy to use).
Fruhlinger Consulting - Experts discuss current web page design and usability issues. Provides usability, user experience strategy, and user research services. Also provides free research reports regarding user research, human factors, user experience, and usability.
GUI Bloopers - Presentation and promo of Jeff Johnson's book "GUI Bloopers". Covers problems with text, graphics, interactive dialog and web page design.
GVU: The Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center - Development of new technologies in graphics, usability and visualization.
Home of the GUIguy® - GUI Design and Usability consulting for Windows applications and Web sites. Classes and seminars available emphasizing usability, GUI design, web site design.
HTML Authoring Tools - Delorie Software provides a number of free services to the web community to assist web authors who wish to make their information available to the largest audience. These tools provide alternate ways of viewing your pages, so that you can ensure that your content is received properly by all viewers.
HTML Style Issues - Alan Flavell discusses HTML usability and provides links to many style and usability sites.
Human Factors International - Ensuring interface usability and systems consistency through software ergonomics, human factors science and design artistry. Site is mostly about software design, but also includes tips on web page design and e-commerce usability.
Human Factors International - Web Usability Tips - These tips are provided to help you improve the interaction between humans and computers in your web page design.
Improving Web Site Usability and Appeal - Guidelines compiled by MSN Usability Research to provide designers and producers with ideas to increase the usability and appeal of Web sites.
Internet Brothers: Layout and web page Design Fundamentals - Avoid common web page mistakes. Learn about proper alignment, coloring and typography, plus how to put your best foot forward when you have two left feet.
JavaScript and Web Site Usability - An Interview with JavaScript Guru, Mr. Danny Goodman on how JavaScript can make a web site easier to use.
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.
Magnetic-Media - Web In Motion - A commentary on web usability, web page design, and direction aimed at the beginning web developer.
Mapping Web Sites - Paul Kahn explains why planning diagrams are an essential tool in the analysis and design of a web site. Diagrams help developers and users understand the content and relationships that the web site represents, thereby improving usability.
Navigation 101 - A simple, understandable navigation scheme is a critical aspect of web page design and has a direct effect on the bottom line.
Royal National Institute for the Blind: Hints for designing accessible websites - A guide to some of the basic issues to consider in order to create web pages which are accessible to everyone.
Seven Deadly Web Site Sins - And Why You Must Avoid Them at All Costs by Jesse Berst, Editorial Director, ZDNet AnchorDesk.
ShoreWalker - Covers every area of good web page design as well as what not to do. Steers you away from hype and towards more practical, user-friendly Web design. Based in Australia.
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.
Starling Access Services - Interesting definition of Accessible Web Page Design. For use by "anyone, any web browsing technology and any site".
A Style Guide for Those With No Style - Crafting A Nifty Personal Web Site: Basic tips on building web pages. Especially useful is the section on "How Not To Be Annoying", (aka Make It Usable!).
Theory - A weekly column by Adam Baker that discusses web page design, usability, interface, and interaction design. Includes previous columns for review.
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.
Uiweb.com - Monthly expert columns on web usability, interaction and web page design.
Usability Engineering - "Designing for Ease Use", Article written by Corporate Solutions Consulting (UK)on usability engineering.
Usability Sciences Corporation - Provider of Usability testing and research for websites, consumer electronics, software and hardware products.
The WDVL: Designing Attractive Web Pages - Before you can design avant-garde Web pages, you have to know what the rules are before you try to break, bend or amend them.
Web Accessibility Initiative - An initiative by the World Wide Web Consortium to advise web content authors, user agent authors and authoring tools authors how to create accessible content and applications.
Web Design for Learning - Presents a model of web design for learning including basic principles and supporting research. This site was developed and is maintained by Richard Hall.
WebMetric Tools - Good usability is vital to the success of any web site. This site has downloadable sets of web evaluation tools to assist in analysis of a web page based on numerous usability guidelines. Registration is required (free).
WebReview.com - Web Strategists - Features articles by leading practitioners in user-centered design for the Web.
WeMedia - A multimedia company that has designed a website accessible to the estimated 54 million Americans with disabilities. The site is designed for maximum web usability for people with disabilities. Former CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite, an advisor to the site, called the new tools "the ultimate prosthetic."
World Wide Web Consortium Accessiblity Guidelines - A comprehensive set of standardized guidelines, checklists and techniques for incorporating accessibility solutions into web pages.
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