guuui.com
(guuui.com/)
The interaction designers coffee break: daily postings and quarterly articles about interaction design
Added: 6/25/2003
Usability Toolkit @ InfoDesign
(www.infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/)
InfoDesign has a section with a lot of free usability toolkit materials including descriptions of usability techniques and downloadable tools such as guidelines, check lists, examples and software.
Added: 6/25/2003
NASA Usability Engineering Team
(www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/usability/index.html)
Good resource for the range of usability services. Their description: "The Usability Engineering Team provides consultation and support for software development teams to ensure that the software they create is easy to learn, easy to use and less costly to develop and maintain. We believe in following a User-Centered Design process that actively involves the users during all phases of the project. We are committed to providing highly effective interface designs that save time, save money and allow users to be more productive. We firmly believe in 'making technology work for people'".
Added: 5/30/2003
Usability Views
(www.usabilityviews.com/)
"Usability with a twist". This site provides thousands of links to articles about usability, IA, HCI and web design
Added: 2/13/2003
Usability.gov
(www.usability.gov/)
Site containing resources and topics on usability maintained by the National Cancer Institute
Added: 1/9/2003
Usability Net: Methods table
(www.usabilitynet.org/tools/methods.htm)
Nice table presenting a comprehensive collection of usability tools and methods. Descriptions, methods and resources are provided for each item in the table.
Added: 1/9/2003
Usability Net
(www.usabilitynet.org/home.htm)
UsabilityNet is a project funded by the European Union to provide resources and networking for usability practitioners, managers and EU projects.
Added: 1/9/2003
Writing for the Web
(www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/)
Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages. Mainly based on studies by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen.
Added: 5/2/2002
Writing for the Web
(www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/)
The official Sun Microsystems guidelines booklet Writing for the Web by Jakob Neilsen.
Added: 5/2/2002
Usability and RIO
(www.sims.berkeley.edu/~sinha/UsabilityROI.html)
Collection of links to articles and cost-benefit calculators for estimating the economic impact of usability.
Added: 4/15/2002
useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
(www.useit.com/)
Jakob Nielsen's website covering usability issues on the web. Also home to Alertbox, a biweekly column on web usability.
Added: 3/20/2002
Usable Web
(usableweb.com/)
Usable Web is a collection of links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
Added: 3/20/2002
Paper Prototyping Article
(www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/usability/library/us-paper/)
Low-tech usability testing method that can help you sidestep problems before you write your code
Added: 1/4/2002
Human Factors International
(www.humanfactors.com/home/default.asp)
Software usability consulting company with a suite of web resources on usability online
Added: 1/4/2002