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See Also:
- Nielsen, Jakob: Papers and Essays: Online papers by Jakob Nielsen.
- Rosenfeld, Louis: Information Architecture Revealed: Interview with Louis Rosenfeld.
- Jef Raskin: A site by and about Jef Raskin, interactive systems design expert.
- Krug, Steve: Advanced Common Sense: Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, provides consulting services including expert reviews of existing sites and new designs, usability workshops, and usability testing.
- 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.
- Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking: Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.
- Nielsen, Jakob: Feedback From Users of an Archive: How to collect usability data from site users, using a historical archive as the case study. Keep surveys simple, collect data from real-world usage, and get feedback from friends of the site.
- Nielsen, Jakob: Frames Suck Most of the Time: Why frames are usually a very bad idea.
- Nielsen, Jakob: Guerrilla HCI: Guerrilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier
- Nielsen, Jakob: Multimedia Guidelines: A broad set of guidelines for multimedia on the web.
- Nielsen, Jakob: Print design vs. Web design: Dr. Jakob Nielsen highlights key differences between designing for print and designing for the web.
- Nielsen, Jakob: Site Map Usability: Most site maps fail to convey multiple levels of the site's information architecture. In usability tests, users often overlook site maps or can't find them. Complexity is also a problem: a map should be a map, not a navigational challenge of its own.
- Nielsen, Jakob: Web design vs. GUI design: Designing for the Web is different from traditional user interface design. Fundamentally, the designer gives up a lot of control to the user - get used to it: WYSIWYG is dead
- 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
- Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More?: When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
- 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.
- Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard -- PDF File: From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.
- Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard -- PDF file: From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.
- 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.
- 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
- Spool, Jared: Web Graphic Design Is Not What You Think, A Usability Perspective: "The number one activity on the Web is information retrieval." In part of his tutorial, Spool explained his findings on graphic design and users' success.
- Szuc, Daniel: Usability in Hong Kong: Interview detailing the approach to web usability in Hong Kong.
- Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles: Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services.
- Various: WebWord Interviews with the Experts: Site includes usability articles written by John S. Rhodes. This page is a good starting point.
- Veen, Jeffrey: Homepage: Jeffrey Veen is the author of "The Art & Science of Web Design". His home page features details of the book and other links.
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