Curious Cat Cool Connections: Web Usability
- Signal to Noise - Great blog - highly recommended By 37Signals, about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more. From the company that brought us RubyonRails.
- Fighting Linkrot - by Jakob
Nielsen, Jun 1998. An incredibly simple and important concept that many sites fail to heed. Properly
maintaining permanent URLs greatly increases search engine ranking (if the site has content people find
valuable).
- User Interface Engineering - UIE was founded by Jared Spool.
The site includes a large number of valuable articles on web usability.
- The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design - by Jakob Nielsen, May, 1999. "The top ten design mistakes I identified in 1996 are still bad for Web
usability and are still found on many websites." And in 2003 this is still true, though some improvement have
been made.
- Paper Prototypes: Still Our Favorite - "Even after trying other prototyping techniques, we?re still convinced that paper works best. We
and our clients use it for many projects these days, just as we did when we first started eight years ago."
- Usability 101 - by Jakob Nielsen. "What is usability? How, when, and
where can you improve it? Why should you care? This overview answers these basic questions."
- Testing the Three-Click Rule - by Josh Porter. "Three-Click Rule does not focus on the real problem. The number of clicks isn't what
is important to users, but whether or not they're successful at finding what they're seeking."
- Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 - by Jakob Nielsen, Dec 2002. "As the Web grows, websites continue to come up with ways to annoy users.
Following are ten design mistakes that were particularly good at punishing users and costing site owners
business in 2002."
- Deep Linking is Good Linking - by
Jakob Nielsen, Mar 2003. "Links that go directly to a site's interior pages enhance usability because, unlike
generic links, they specifically relate to users' goals. Websites should encourage deep linking and follow
three guidelines
- Let Users Control Font Size - by
Jakob Nielsen, Aug 2002. "Tiny text tyrannizes users by dramatically reducing task throughput."
Online libraries of usability articles: Alertbox, Jakob Nielsen - User Interface Engineering, Jared Spool
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