Usability Links

The Usability Links listed below provide a selection of some of the most useful pages we've found on the Web pertaining to usability. If you feel that a critical usability resource is not included, please let us know by filling out our feedback form.

Our Groupware Index contains a comprehensive list of links related to collaborative systems.

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

Accessibility

• 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.

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.