Website Usability: Making Content Easy to Find
Resource List
Web Sites
- Useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
- Usability.gov
- Accessibility Resources
- Usable Web
- Society for Technical Information: Usability Special Interest Group
- Web Pages That Suck: Learn Usability and Good Web Design by Looking at Bad Design
- Improving Web Site Usability and Appeal
- Web Style Guide
- WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind
Articles
- "Why you only need to test with 5 users." Jakob Nielsen. Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, March 19, 2000.
- "Field studies done right: fast and observational." Jakob Nielsen. Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, January 20, 2002.
- "Clarifying search: A user-interface framework for text searches." Ben Schneiderman, Don Byrd and W. Bruce Croft. D-Lib Magazine, January 1997.
- "Universal Usability as a Stimulus to Advanced Interface Design." Ben Schneiderman and Harry Hochheiser. Behaviour & Information Technology 20, 5 (Sept-Oct 2001), 367-376.
Books
- Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2000.
- Information Architecture for the World-Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville. Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 1998.
- Don't Make Me Think! : A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug. Indianapolis, Ind. : New Riders, 2000
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. Doubleday: New York, 1990.
- A Practical Guide to Usability Testing by Joseph S. Dumas and Janice C. Redish. Intellect Books: 1999.
