Website Design: Design Links

This page provides useful links to sites with information about website design, with an emphasis on usability issues.

Website Design

• Webmonkey.com: the Web Developer's Resource
  webreview.com
  Archive of articles by and for web developers. A search on "usability" will generate a list of related articles.


• Web Style Guide
  info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html
  Nice, design-oriented, readable explanations of principles of website design.

Usability

• Usability First
  www.usabilityfirst.com
  A broad selection of usability resources.


• Usable Web: Guide to Web Usability
  www.usableweb.com
  A large set of links related to designing usable websites.


• The Usability Methods Toolbox
  www.best.com/~jthom/usability/
  A nearly-comprehensive set of usability methods each described in simple and useful terms.

Graphic Design

• Designing Web Graphics
  Lynda Weinman
  www.lynda.com
  This and other books by Lynda Weinman are practical sets of web graphics techniques.

Writing

• The Elements of Style
  William Strunk, Jr.
  www.bartleby.com/141/
  Classic tips for good writing, written in 1918 but still as relevant today.


• The Jargon File
  Eric s. Raymond
  http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/
  The online version of The New Hacker's Dictionary, Raymond calls this site the "network culture's museum of itself, an evolving encyclopedia of Internet slang that has chronicled what's hot and what's not since 1973." Good for learning hacker usage.

For More Resources

Our usability links page provides additional related links. We also have useful website design information in our usability glossary.