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Useful Links |
Bibliographies
The
HCI Bibliography (Gary Perlman) - a comprehensive
bibliography for Human-Computer Interaction.
Professional Organizations
ACM
SIGCHI - Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction - the premier
organization for HCI and usability professionals and
researchers.
Usability
Professionals' Association - another organization
aimed primarily at practitioners
Usability
Special Interest Group - Society for Technical Communication
Design Guidelines
Web
Style Guide
Design Examples
Bad
Human Factors Designs - excellent collection of
unusable designs.
Interface
Hall of Shame - another good collection focusing
on user interfaces.
Usability
Methods
Heuristic
Evaluation (Jakob Nielsen) - general guidelines
for usability inspections.The
Usability Methods Toolbox - nice survey of many
usability methods.
Usability
Net - methods, resources and standards for usability
and user centered design.
Website Design
Usability.gov
- Provided by the National Cancer Institute, it is a
resource for designing useful, usable, and accessible
websites.
Hotwired:
Webmonkey
CNET:
Builder.com
Accessibility
RetroAccess
- an automated HTML validation and correction tool to
test for Federal and W3C accessibility standards compliance.
Bobby
- an HTML validation program designed to test accessibility
and highlight nonstandard and incorrect code.
DO-IT
- a collection of resources, including links to internet
sources for accessible web design.
The
Trace Research and Development Center - provides
resources for the design of accessible web pages.
Web Demographics and Marketing
CyberAtlas
- a comprehensive reference for web marketing and demographics.GVU
Center's WWW User Surveys - annual surveys of web
users shows interesting trends in user habits, preferences,
and environment.
Web
Marketing Information Center - a large collection
of articles pertaining to web marketing.
Toolkits
User
Interface Software Tools (Brad Myers) - a collection
of commercial and academic user interface management
systems.
User
Centered Design Methodology and Tools - provides
a nice background of user-centered design including
evaluation methods, design techniques, and a bibliography
of resources.
Other Resources Pages
HCI
Index (Hans de Graaff) - one of the originals and
still one of the best.
HCI
Resources: Guidelines, styleguides, standards -
links to HCI guidelines.
Usable
Web (Keith Instone) - a large collection of website
usability and HCI links.
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