- Morville, Peter: Building a Synonymous Search Index
Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site.
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2879/nam1012433844/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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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.
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2604/nam1012432737/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Navigation 101
A simple, understandable navigation scheme is a critical aspect of site design and has a direct effect on the bottom line.
http://wdvl.com/Location/Navigation/101/
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Nielsen Norman Group
Reports and columns on usability and human interface design by Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, and Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini.
http://www.nngroup.com/reports/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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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
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/hcd_website_design.html
(Added: Sat Apr 01 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Pointafter.com - 20 Do's and Don'ts of Web Usability
Tips from George Prociuk.
http://www.pointafter.com/Archives/nl0204.htm
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Principia Hypertextica: Introduction
A mathematics educator's view of web design. Encourages speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability. Discusses difficulties of math typesetting on the web.
http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/chaff1ra/m132/WWW/type/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Publish.com - Five Usability Principles For Web Design
Ilise Benun elaborates on the principles of consistency, interaction, instruction, choices and control.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zd4149/is_200309/ai_n9477209
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Publish.com - Flash and Usability
Guidelines for usable Flash, By Ilise Benun.
http://www.publish.com/article2/0,,1757914,00.asp
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Publish.com - Usability Matters
Article by Marcia Ludkin. "Again and again... usability experts discover that real people may not understand what may be obvious to a site’s designers."
http://www.publish.com/article2/0,,1762078,00.asp
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Readability Of Websites With Various Foreground/Background Color Combinations, Font Types And Word S
1997 psychology research project by Alyson L. Hill at Stephen F. Austin State University. Participants scanned simulated websites for a target word; readability was inferred from reaction time.
http://hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Roger C. Parker - Eleven Common Web Page Design Frustrations and How To Cure Them
How to keep web page design from interfering with communication to visitors.
http://www.newentrepreneur.com/Resources/Articles/12_Com_Mis/12_com_mis.html
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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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?
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2890/nam1012433856/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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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.
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=3011/nam1012433819/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Royal National Institute for the Blind: Web Access Centre
Web accessibility resources.
http://www.rnib.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_accessiblewebsites.hcsp
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard -- PDF File
From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/webstandards.pdf
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard -- PDF file
From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/guistandards.pdf
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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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.
http://www.uie.com/articles/eye_tracking/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Scottberkun.com
Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design.
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/
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- Seattletimes.com: A primer for a good Web page
Users want indicators of how good (e.e., current, accurate, credible) the page's information is.
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=issu&date=19980329
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Section 508 Accessibility - Extreme Cross-Browser Compatible Menu and Navbar System
Section 508 Accessible Menu and navbar system for those wanting compatibility with the widest group of browsers. Uses Dreamweaver MX and above.
http://www.decloak.com/Products/Dreamweaver/NestedTemplates/Browser_Compatibility.aspx
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- ShoreWalker
Covers every area of good site design as well as what not to do. Steers you away from hype and towards more practical, user-friendly Web design. Based in Australia.
http://www.shorewalker.com/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- SIGCHI World Wide Web Special Interest Area
WWWSIA is a subgroup of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). It focuses on the human factors of the World Wide Web.
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/webhci/
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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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.
http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_something_4_nothing.html
(Added: Wed Apr 05 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Spool, Jared: Hard Evidence from Research
Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2894/nam1012433859/
(Added: Fri Mar 31 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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